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Flashcards by jhia walker, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jhia walker
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Define : monsoon | seasonal wind |
| Define: deities | gods + goddesses |
| define: reincarnaton | rebirth |
| Define: artisans | skilled workers |
| Define: caste | a social group |
| Define: raja | an Indian ruler |
| Define: export | trade good sent out of the country |
| Define: import | product being brought into the country |
| Define: epics | long poems told about the life of a hero |
| Define: loess | rich yellow soil |
| Define: warlords | military leaders |
| Define: oracles | special priests |
| Define: pictographs | simple pictures |
| Define: standardization | making things the same (for example- money + language) |
| Define: Silk Road | 4,000 mile trade route |
| what is the geography in India? | rivers, plains, valleys, + mountains |
| What is the Indus civilization? | farmers, artisans, had a barter company |
| what is the worlds oldest religion? | Hinduism |
| What are some Hindu gods? | Shiva, Vishnu, + Brahama |
| Which religion is simpler Buddhism or Hinduism? | Buddhism |
| What do Buddhists do? | They meditate, have 4 noble truths, + they follow the Eightfold Path |
| What were some Indian achievments? | -invented zero, mumerals 1-9, + decimals -discovered the sun is the center of the solar system |
| What is the third religion of India | Janism |
| What does Huang He mean in Chinese? | It means Yellow River |
| What are the dangers of a river? | -flooding -destroy harvest -cause famine |
| What type of religion were the Chinese? | polytheistic (they believed in many gods) |
| What were China's 1st dynasties? | Shang + the Zhou |
| Who were the dynasties in charge of warning? | They were in charge of warning the states the last 200 years |
| What did they invent? | saddles, stirrups, + used iron weapons |
| Why did they build the great defense wall? | TO keep the enemies out |
| what did they later on build in the same spot of the great defense wall? | the GReat Wall of China |
| what were the Chinese accomplishments? | -predict eclipses of the sun -improved medicine -invented steal -invented seismograph (predicts future) |
| What did Confusious a Chinese philosopher believe? | he believed we should - respect parents - follow the golden rule + -men should be educated |
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