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| Name the country that once spoke Sanskirt (from the Aryans who came there). |
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| What is the name of the ancient Indian collection of religious literature (from the Aryans)? |
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| What is the name of the ancient warlike people who migrated from central Asia into the Indus Valley? |
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| physical features of a land |
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| What is the name for the rigid, social groups in India? |
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| What are the four broad groups of the castes? |
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| priests, rulers/warriors, merchants/traders, and servants |
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| What is the main religion of India? |
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| Who is the god of Hinduism? |
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| True or False: Hinuds believe all religions are equally true and equally false. |
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| True or False: even today, most of the people of India are Hindus. |
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| What is the name for the cycle of rebirths in Hinduism? |
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| True or false: Braham is often referred to as the "world soul" and the goal of man is to reunite his soul with the world soul. |
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| True or False: Hindus believe that one can never get off the wheel of life and attain union with the world soul. |
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| True or False: Buddists as well as Hindus believe that man can have eternal peace if his good works outweigh his bad works. |
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| True or False: There is a middle class in the caste system. |
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| True or False: Buddhism is a religion based on works, and it was founded in India. |
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| What religion has four noble truths? |
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| True or False: Followers of Hinduism and Buddhism never know for sure if they have done more good works than bad. |
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| Who established the Mauryan Empire (first strong empire of India)? |
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| What was the name of the most famous of the Mauryan rulers who sent Buddhist missionaries abroad? |
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| Asoka (grandson of Chandragupta) |
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| Which Indian empire was the most prosporous? It was a time of happiness and achievement. |
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| Along the banks of what river did the earliest Indian civilization begin? |
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| True or false: China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. |
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| True or false: India was a river-valley civilization and was isolated by geographic barriers from other centers of civilization until modern times. |
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| True or False: In ancient China the family was the center of life, but not in modern times. |
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| False (the family still is the center of life in the modern Chinese society) |
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| What group holds the most prominent position in Chinese society? |
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| Scholars (China has been called a "scholar's world') |
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| True or false: the goal of the learned man was a career in government service. |
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| What Chinese teacher taught that through proper conduct one could solve the problems of society and live in complete happiness? |
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| What Chinese teacher taught that harmony and order in society would result from maintaining prober relationships between people. |
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| What religion taught "what you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"? |
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| True or false: Taoism was second in importance to Confucianism. |
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| Who was the founder of Taoism? |
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| True or false: Taoism says that one should live in harmony with nature and live an inactive lifestyle. They also say that the weak overcomes the strong. |
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| True or false: Taoism became the guiding philosophy of China's educational, social, and political systems; Confucianism became the basis of mystical, magical, and superstitious elements in Chinese society. |
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| False (Confucianism was the philosophy of the education, social, and political systems. |
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| True or false: Historians established the major divisions of Chinese history based on the dynastic rule? |
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| Who invented movable type? |
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| What did the ancient Chinese call their land? |
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| the middle kingdom (because the thought they were the center of the earth) |
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| What was probably the most remarkable building achievement that occurred under the Ch'in Dynasty? |
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| the building of the Great Wall |
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| True or false: Japan is the newest (youngest) of the major Asian civilizations, but little is known about her early history? |
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| Early Japanese society was divided into clans that were family units. |
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| Who was the alleged first emperor of Japan? |
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| Jimmu Tenno ("heavenly prince"; legend has it that he descended from the sun goddess, therefore, he was divine. |
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| True or false: Japanese emporers all claim that JImmu Tenno is their divine ancestor. Therefore, unlike China, Japan has had only one imperial family in all it's history. |
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| What religion litally means "the way of the gods"? |
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| True or false: Chinese culture flowed into Japan through Buddhism. |
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| Who made Buddhism the favored national religion of Japan? |
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| There was a turnabout in the Japanese political and economic structure where they changed the nature of their political structure from semi-independent clans to a centralized government headed by an emporer. This was called what? |
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| Taika Reform ("great change") |
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| Name for the Japanese warrior |
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| Japanese title meaning "great general" |
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| What is the name of the unwritten Japanese military code meaning "the way of the warrior"? |
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| What is the name for vast grassy plains in central Asia? |
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| Who was the greatest Mongol conqueror and founder of the Mongol dominance? |
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| Who was Genghis Khan's grandson who completed the conquest of China? |
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| The growth of what city weakened the Golden Horde in Russia? |
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| True or False: The Golden Horde was the term for the Mongol dominance in Russia? |
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| After the fall of Constantinople, Moscow became known as the "third Rome". |
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| Who was the Grand Prince of Moscow that openly challenged their Mongol overlords and refused to pay anymore tribute? |
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| Who was a cruel Mongolian conqueror who destroyed Delhi, but his empire collasped shortly after he died? |
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| Who conquered Russia and was the leader of the Golden Horde? |
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| What is the name of the Mongol empire in India that was Muslim? |
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| Who was the greatest Mohgul ruler (grandson of Babur? |
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| What was the capital of Mali? It was an important center of African trade. |
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| Who was the Christian missionary know as the "apostle to the Abyssinians"? |
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| What is the term for the marriage of one man to more than one woman? It was common in African culture. |
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| What type of trade developed between Europeans and Aftican kingdoms at African ports? |
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| True or false: most African people rejected tribal religions and converted to Islam? |
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| False (most kept the tribal religions) |
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| The kingdom of Kush in Africa fell to what kingdom? |
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| Aksum (converted to Christianity) |
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| The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was on the shores of what body of water? |
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| What did Mansu Musa rule? |
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| Which language dominated the East African city-states? |
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| The forest kingdom of Benin (Africa) was best known for what? |
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| What ancient African civilization conquered the Egyptians for a time? |
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| True or false: Askum, an African cicilization actually embraced Christianity. |
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| List and explain the three similarities among the Asian civilizations. |
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| 1. Traditionalism (change was frowned upon) 2. stifling of the individual (group was responsible for members, so change was rare) 3. false religion (they had no hope of salvation). |
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| Describe Hinduism (India) |
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| Believe eternal peace is achieved through good works outweighing the bad works. They can never know if they have done more good works than bad. They believe the great god, Brahman, permeates the universe. The goal of a Hindus is to unite his soul with the Brahman world soul by reincarnation. |
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| Describe Buddhism (India) |
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| Believe eternal peace is achieved through good works outweighing the bad works. They can never know if they have done more good works than bad. They believe that man doesn't need to get into a higher caste to obtain freedom from suffering. They believe that once a person has freed himself from selfish cravings, he will enter Nirvana which is a state of peace and happiness in a world soul. |
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| Who founded Confucianism (China) and what is its main teaching? |
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| Founder is K'ung Futza; belief in five basic human relationships. |
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| Who founded Taoism (China) and what is its main teaching? |
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| Founder is Lao-Tzu; believe that happiness and peace come from living in harmony with nature. |
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| True or false: India had empires and China had dynasties |
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| Who founded Shintoism (Japan) and what is its main teaching? |
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| no founder; it was originally a form of nature worship that gradually included emperor worship, loyalty to one's clan, and patriatism. |
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| Why don't we know too much early Japanese history? |
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| They didn't keep good written records; they passed down myths and legends orally. |
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| True or false: Hinduism has no founder or formal statement of beliefs. |
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| Who is the founder of Buddhism? |
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| Name the most influential class of people in each civilization: India, China, and Japan. |
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| India - the priests; China - the scholars; Japan - the warriors |
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| List the Mongol Rulers and list their territories. |
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| Genghis Khan (conquered from China to Russia), Kublai Khan (established the Yuan dynasty in China), Batu Khan (established the Golden Horde in Russia), Tamerlane (conquered much of southwestern Asia, from India to Asia Minor), Babur (established the Muhgul dynasty in India), Akbar (the greatest of the Mughul rulers in India) |
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| Name three major religions of Africa. |
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| Christianity, Islam, and traditional tribal religions. |
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| Name the three western African kingdoms and what were the bases of their wealth? |
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| Ghana, Mali, and Songhai; gold mines and camel caravan trade |
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| What were important items of African trade? |
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| gold, salt, ivory, slaves, iron, and books |
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| Name the contributions of China to the western world. |
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| silk, porcelain, china, printing, movable type, paper, magnetic compass, fireworks, and gunpowder. |
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