Ancient India and China test for Mr. Corey
This is a sample of the upcoming test on March 7th
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- Terra Cotta Army
- Shi Huangdi's army that was created for his tomb.
- Reincarnation
- Rebirth of a soul in another body
- Dynastic Circle
- 1.Mandate of Heaven: the gods approve the new emperor 2. the dynasty's power grows weaker 3 Disasters such as floods, and invasions occur 4 the people believe that the emperor has lost the gods' approval 5. the dynasty is overthrown 6. the new dynasty restores peace and order.
- Filial Piety
- A respect for one's family or ancestors(one of the teachings of Confucius)
- Siddhartha Guatama
- A prince who founded Buddhism, and gave up his power to become enlightened.
- Great Wall of China
- A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.
- Bureaucracy
- A system of organized government departments staffed by appointed officials
- Qin Dynasty
- Finally unified China. Shi Huangdi was the emperor. He was a legalist,.
- Hindu Kush
- A mountain range along the northern border of India
- Yoga
- It is simple meditations, and is widely used for relaxation.
- Democracy
- People's government
- Asoka
- The greatest Maurya king, whose reign began in 269 BC.
- Aryans
- A member of the Indo-European people who crossed into India around 1500 BC
- Oracle Bones
- An animal bone or turtle shell used by the Shang kings of China to communicate with and influence the gods.
- Silk Roads
- Roads which helped in growing crops and trade.
- Laozi
- The founder of Daoism.
- Planned City
- A city that is built according to a set design
- Warring States
- 7 states of China going into war.
- Philosophy
- A investigation of basic truths about the universe, based on logical resoning
- Karma
- The sum of one person's life, which determines his or her fate in the next life
- Zhou Dynasty
- It started around 1027 BC. Started the dynastic cycle.
- Communism
- A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
- Capital of China and India
- China - Beijing India- New Delhi
- Caste System
- A social class that a person belongs to by birth.
- Daoism
- It is a philosophy which is founded by Laozi. Daoism emphasizes living in harmony with nature
- Han Dynasty
- Created a bureaucracy. It began in 202 BC by Liu Bang.
- Monsoon
- A seasonal wind that produces a wet or dry period in a region, especially in southern Asia
- Hinduism
- A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms
- Shinto
- Means the "way of the gods". They worship many gods called kami. They believe in the Gods of nature
- Harrapan Civilization
- An ancient Indian culture , dating back to 2500 BC, that included the people of the entire Indus River region
- Ahisma
- Nonviolence
- What are the different castes in the caste system
- Untouchables, Sudra, Vaisya, Ksatriya, and Brahmin
- Shang Dynasty
- Started around 2000 BC. Thy used oracle bones and pictographs.
- subcontinent
- A large land mass that is part of a continent but considered a separate landform
- Pictograph
- A picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea in an early system of writing
- Trans-Eurasian
- Involving continents of Europe and Asia. The crossing over from Europe to Asia
- Himalayas
- A high mountain range that extends through northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan
- Dharma
- The collected teachings of Buddha
- Cultural Diffusion
- A spread of ethnic ideas and customs to other areas of the world
- Legalism
- A belief that a ruler should use the legal system to force people to obey laws
- Hindu-Arabic Numerals
- Numbers -- 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Shi Huangdi
- The first emperor of Qin Dynasty which unified china and built a huge place where his tomb is and with over 6000 clay figure Terra Cotta Army horse and people protecting his tomb.
- Buddhism
- It is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Guatama (aka Buddha) Follow the Middle Path or Eight fold PAth
- Brahmanism
- The early religion of the Aryans in ancient India which leds to Hinduism
- Who invented wheel, ploew, calendar, medicine, paper, days of the week, and bronze.
- wheel-Mesopotamians. Plow-Mesopotamians calendar-Egyptians medicine-Chinese paper-Chinese days of the week-Mesopotamians bronze-Mesopotamians
- Nirvana
- A state pf wisdom which breaks the cycle of reincarnation
- Confucius
- Confucius was the man who founded Confucianism, and he was a peacemaker who was appointed by the Duke of Lu to the minister of justice.
- Gandhi
- A leader who used nonviolence (ahisma) to oppose the British rule of India
- Gobi Dessert
- A large desert in China, it is on one end of The Great Wall of China.
- Mandate of Heaven
- The new emperor has the gods' approval
- Two major rivers in India
- Ganges, and Indus