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19 Cards in this Set
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Mauryan Empire
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started by Chandragupta Maurya in about 321 B.C. It centered on the lower Ganges River and stretched to the Indus.
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Asoka
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grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who brought the empire to its greatest height; great warrior who eventually promoted Buddhism
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Religous Toleration
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acceptance of people who held other beliefs
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Tamil
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a language spoken in 3 kingdoms of southern India never conquered by the Mauryans
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Gupta Empire
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India's second empire; it started in Magadha in 320 A.D. by Chandra Gupta (no relation to India's first emperor); led to flowering of Indian civilization, especially Hindu culture
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Patriarchal
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family headed by the eldest male
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Matriarchal
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mother, not the father, was head of the house-hold (Tamils of southern India)
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Mahayana
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one of the two sects in the Buddhist faith that taught that Buddha was god. It was a religion that offered salvation to all and popular worship
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Theravada
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the other sect of Buddhism that adheres to the original teachings of Buddhism; also called Hinayana
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Brahma
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Hindu god; creator of the world
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Vishnu
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Hindu god; preserver of the world
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Shiva
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Hindu god; destroyer of the world
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Kalidasa
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one of India's greatest writers; may have been the court poet for Chandra Gupta II who reigned from 375-415 A.D.; wrote the Shakuntala
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Silk Roads
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Caravan route that brought silk from China to western Asia and on to Rome
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Han Dynasty
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started by Liu Bang in 202 B.C.; it would last for more than 400 years, over two different time periods of about two centuries each
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centralized government
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a central authority controls the running of a state
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civil service
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government jobs that civilians obtained by taking examinations
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Monopoly
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occurs when a group has exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods
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Assimilation
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process of making conquered peoples part of your country's culture
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