| A | B |
|---|
| Legalism | philosophy that taught government should have strict laws enforced with harsh punishments |
| Confucianism | philosophy that taught loyalty and obedience to family and government |
| Mauryan Empire | First Empire in India founded by Chandragupta Maurya |
| Qin | Dynasty in China that followed Confucianism |
| Filial Piety | respect for parents |
| Shi Huangdi | emperor who united China and Leagalism |
| Wudi | emperor of the Han Dynasty called "Warrior Emperor" |
| Gupta | golden age of India |
| Liu Bang | emperor who founded the Han dynasty |
| Han | Dynasty in China that followed Confucianism and became the most technologically advanced |
| Civil Service | the administrative departments of a government- employees hired on the basis of thier examination scores |
| Chandragupta Maurya | founder of the first great Indian Empire who was a harsh effective ruler |
| Asoka | emperor who converted to Buddhism, who rejected violence and preached religious tolerance |
| Religious tolerance | recognition of a people's right to hold differing religious beliefs |
| Dynastic Cycle | rise and fall of Chinese dynasties according to the Mandate of Heaven |
| Mandate of Heaven | the god given right to rule |
| Dynasty | ruling family that passes the right to rule from one member to another |
| Assimilation | the adoption of a conqueror's culture by a conquered people |
| Golden Age | a time of properity and advacements in learning and culture |
| Terra Cotta Army | these were found in the tomb of emperor Shi Huangdi |
| ethnocentrism | belief that one's culture or ethnic group is superior |
| centralized government | the power is concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are subject |
| joint families | where parents, children, gradparents, uncles and their children share a common home |
| autocracy | a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner |
| beuracracy | system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government |
| civil service exam | test used by the Han rulers to support the idea that officials should win positions by merit |
