| A | B |
|---|
| lowest level of Chinese social hiearchy | merchants |
| dynasty that ruled China for the longest | Zhou |
| Pax Sinica | period of peace and prosperity during the Han dynasty |
| concept of yin and yang | opposing forces present in nature |
| The Qin government was overthrown by who? | Lui Bang |
| The civil service was open to all social groups except who? | merchants |
| What was the river sometimes called the "Great Sorrow"? | Huang He |
| Who was the mythical founder of China's Xia dynasty? | Yu the Great |
| What was the earliest Chinese dynasty?` | Shang |
| The growth of Buddhism in China grew the most when? | The last stages of the Han Empire. |
| Who developed the philosophy of Daoism? | Laozi |
| What was the language of the Aryans? | Sanskrit |
| What was the oldest Aryan religious text? | Rig-Veda |
| What empire dissolved by A.D. 600? | Gupta |
| In what era, were infinity and zero invented? | Gupta |
| What is a Buddhist mound? | Stupa |
| Who were the outcasts or "untouchables" in the varna system? | Pariahs |
| What is the release from the cycle of rebirth? | Moksha |
| What is the practice of nonviolence called? | Ahimsa |
| What is the play about a king and forest maiden? | Shakuntala |
| Who formed an empire after the fall of the Mauryan Empire? | Chandragupta I |
| Who is the Enlightened One? | Buddha |
| What were the laws of Asoka? | Rock Edicts |
| What was the occupational group called? | jati |
| What were the commoners named in the Varna system? | Vaisyas |
| Who was the ruler of Magadha in Darius's time? | Bimbisara |
| What are the Books of Knowledge called? | Vedas |
| What was the leader of each Aryan tribe called? | rajah |
| What religion do most people practice in India? | Hinduism |
| What is the main goal of the Eightfold Path? | to eliminate desire |
| Who transformed Magadha from a small state to the center of an empire? | Chandragupta II |
| What was India's priestly class named? | Brahmans |
| What are the Aryans best described as? | Warrior-herders |
| What was one of the main causes of the Mauryan Empire's collapse? | heavy taxation caused popular unrest |
| When did Asoka adopt Buddhism? | after witnessing the aftermath of a brutal batlle |
| What is the given name of Buddha? | Siddhartha Gautama |
| What was a collection of moral tales during the Gupta Period? | Panchatantra |
| What were two great epics of Indian literature? | Ramayana and Mahabharate |
| What lands did Ptolemy have rule over? | Egypt, Libya, and part of Syria |
| Who was the author of Elements of Geometry? | Euclid |
