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19 Cards in this Set
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Chandragupta Maurya
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Took hold of the Indus River and began battle against Seleucus I
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Kautila
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an adviser of Mauryan
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Asoka
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Mauryan's grandson who developed the empire to its highest
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religious toleration
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people who have different beliefs
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Tamil
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language spoken in southern India
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Gupta Empire
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2nd empire of India
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patriarchal
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family headed by the oldest male
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matriarchal
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the mother was head of the family
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Faxian
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Chinese Buddhist
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Mahayana
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sect of Buddism that has popular worship
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Theravada
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sect of Buddhism that looks on the spiritual discipline
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Brahma; Vishnu; Shiva
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creator of the world: preserver of the world: destroyer of the world
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Kalidasa
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court poet for Chandra Gupta II
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Silk roads
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traders used the roads for China to western Asia
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Arybhata
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calculated the length of the year 356 days
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Marco Polo
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Italian trader
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Bartolemu Dias
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Portugese explorer
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Prince Henry
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son of Portugal's king/navigator
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Vasco de Gama
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Reahed the sothwestern coast of India
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