Ch. Reviews
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- Chandragupta Maurya
- Took hold of the Indus River and began battle against Seleucus I
- Kautila
- an adviser of Mauryan
- Asoka
- Mauryan's grandson who developed the empire to its highest
- religious toleration
- people who have different beliefs
- Tamil
- language spoken in southern India
- Gupta Empire
- 2nd empire of India
- patriarchal
- family headed by the oldest male
- matriarchal
- the mother was head of the family
- Faxian
- Chinese Buddhist
- Mahayana
- sect of Buddism that has popular worship
- Theravada
- sect of Buddhism that looks on the spiritual discipline
- Brahma; Vishnu; Shiva
- creator of the world: preserver of the world: destroyer of the world
- Kalidasa
- court poet for Chandra Gupta II
- Silk roads
- traders used the roads for China to western Asia
- Arybhata
- calculated the length of the year 356 days
- Marco Polo
- Italian trader
- Bartolemu Dias
- Portugese explorer
- Prince Henry
- son of Portugal's king/navigator
- Vasco de Gama
- Reahed the sothwestern coast of India