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132 Cards in this Set
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Aryans
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warlike people
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River where Indian civilization rose in the Northeast
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Ganges
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People who migrated across Europe and Asia seeking water and pasture.
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Indo-European
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A collection of prayers
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Vedas
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Vedic Age years
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1500 BC to 500 BC
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Nomadic herders valued ________.
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Cattle
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Aryans divided people by _______.
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Occupation
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Three basic groups of people.
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1. Brahmins
2. Kshatriyas 3. Vaisyas |
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Aryans conquered these people
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Dravidians
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Aryans separated Dravidians and non-Aryans into this fourth group
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Sudras
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Social groups in which people are born to and cannot change
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Castes
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Sacred text where ideas are collected
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Upanishads
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A story about a boy who ordered to break open the fruit of a _________.
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Banyan tree
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Two major religions
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Hinduism and Buddhism
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Unlike most religions, Hinduism has no ________________________________,
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single founder or sacred text
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Added gods of the Indus River Valley to their own.
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Aryans
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Hinduism is a complex religions with countless________.
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gods and goddesses
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The belief that the universe is part of the unchanging, all-powerful spiritual force.
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Brahman
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The creator
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Brahma
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The preserver
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Vishnu
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The destroyer
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Shiva
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powerful wife of Shiva
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Shatki
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Hindu teachings recorded in these sacred texts
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Vedas and Upanishads
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Essential Self
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Atman
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Union with brahman
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Moksha
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To achieve moksha, they must free themselves from ______.
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Selfish desires that separate them from Brahman
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Rebirth of the soul in another bodily form
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Reincarnation
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Continue working toward moksha through ______ lifetimes.
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Several
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All the actions of a person's life that effects his fate in the next life.
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Karma
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All existence to Hindus is ________.
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Ranked
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Closet to brahman
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Humans
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Do good means reborn at higher level of existance.
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Good Karma
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Do evil means reborn into suffering
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Bad Karma
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Death and rebirth is an ______ cycle.
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Endless
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Religious/moral duties of an individual
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Dharma
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Non-violence
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Ahisma
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Founded new religion that grew out of Hindu Tradition
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Jainism
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Jainism was founded in the ______.
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Himalayas
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Founded the new religion, Buddhism.
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Siddhartha Guatama
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Buddhism spread across...
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Asia
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Year Guatama was born to a high-caste family.
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566 BC
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Mother dreamed of this that descended to her from heaven
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White elephant
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Guatama sat under this until he understood life.
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Giant tree
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Sat there for this many days.
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48 days.
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Guatama became known as
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Buddha
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Buddha also means..
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Enlightened One
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Four Noble Truths
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1. all life is full of pain, suffering, and sorrow.
2. the cause of suffering is desire 3. the only cure for suffering is overcoming desire. 4. the way to overcome desire is to follow the eightfold path |
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Eight Fold Path
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1. right views
2. aspirations 3. speech 4. conduct 5. livelihood 6. effort 7. mindfulness 8. contemplation |
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union with the universe and release from the cycle of rebirth
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Nirvana
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Buddha stressed this (honesty, charity, and kindness to all)
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Moral Principles
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Hinduism and Buddhism similarities
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nonviolence
karma dharma moksha cycle of rebirth grew from same tradition |
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Hinduism and Buddhism differences
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Buddha rejected priests, formal rituals, and many gods of Hinduism.
Buddhist also rejected caste system |
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followers of Buddha
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Disciples
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Eaten spoiled food and died at this age
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80
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Sacred text "Three Baskets of Wisdom"
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Tripatka
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Smaller groups
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Sects
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Two Sects
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Theravada, and Mahayana
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followed the Buddha's original teachings
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Theravada
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made Buddhism easier for ordinary people to follow
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Mahayana
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The great philosopher
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Confuscious
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Students collected many of Confucious's sayings or...
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Analects
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System of ideas
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Legalism
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Hanfeizi
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Hanfienzi died at this year
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233 BC
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Old School Name for East Asia
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Orient
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Old School word for the opposite of Orient
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Occident
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Ocean east of the Orient
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Pacific
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Ocean south of the Orient
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Indian
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Northern Russian Part of East Asia
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Siberia
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Two mountain ranges that separate India from the rest of East Asia
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Hindu Kush and Himalayas
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India can be divided into 3 regions
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Mountainous North, River Valley Plain, and Deccan Plateau
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India's Cradle River
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Indus
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The "lok-mata"
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Ganges
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This river begins in Tibet and ends in the bay of bengal
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Brahmaputra
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Before China was called china it was called this
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Middle Kingdom
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China gets its name from this dynasty
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Qin
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Region between her two great rivers
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China Proper
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China's Two great rivers
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Huang He and Yangzi River
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Soil that makes it yellow
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Loess
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Soil that sinks to the bottom of the river
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Silt
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"Linear Dams"
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Dikes
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Longest River in china
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yangzi
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Means lands of the Manchus
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Manchuria
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North Central Asia (once Genghiz Khan's)
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Mongolia
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Where the Taklamakan Desert is located
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Sinkiang
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Mountainous region of the Southwest
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Tibet
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Highest Mountain
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Mount Everest
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Japan is a "set of islands" or...
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Archaepelo
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Meaning of Japan
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Land of the Rising Sun
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Japan's 4 islands (North to South)
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Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku
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Another word for tribe
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clan
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Fortune tellers would write their fortunes on these
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Oracle bones
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chinese characters that form a picture
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caligraphy
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the rise and fall of various chinese rulers
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dynastic cycle
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Hindu person soul
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Atman
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idea of union between one's soul and the world's soul
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Moksha
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The world soul
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Brahma
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Smaller group within a larger group
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Sect
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A system of ideas that guide you through life
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philosophy
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Idea of great respect for elders
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Fileal Piety
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control over a certain aspect of economy
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Monopoly
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Building an empire by taking over neighboring lands
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Expansionism
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powerful military leader who controls a huge part of the countryside
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Warlord
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to overthrow
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Usurp
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vietnam, korea, and tibet had to pay money to the state so they were..
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Tributary States
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Taking land from rich and giving it to poor
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Land Reform
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multi-storied layered tower in China
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pagoda
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wealthy landowners who had the time and money to be educated
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Gentry
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huge wave generated by an undersea earthquake
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Tsunami
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Idea that Japan copied some things but not everything from China
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selective borrowing
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top Japanese warlord
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Shogun
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All the other powerful warlords in the Country
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Daimo
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Warriors attached to their daimo
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Samurai
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Code of honor among the Samurai
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Bushido
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Three lined Japanese poem often about nature
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Haiku
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Legendary First Dynasty, may not even have existed
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Hia or Xia
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Years of Xia Dynasty
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2100-1600 BC
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First Historic Dynasty
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Shang
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Years of Shang Dynasty
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1600-1027 BC
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Longest Lasting Dynasty
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Zhou or Jo
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Brief Dynasty (emperor a control freak)
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Qin or Cin
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Popular Dynasty restored Chinese ways began civil service exams
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Han
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Highly cultured Dynasty, influenced Japanese culture too
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Tang
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Another cultured dynasty
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Song
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First foreign dynasty
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Mongols, but in chinese it's Yua
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Last native Chinese dynasty, actually means "brilliant"
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Ming
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Last Dynasty to rule China
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Manschu or Qing
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Manschu Dynasty was usupred this year
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1911
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Two native relgions of India
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Buddhism and Hinduism
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Founder of Buddhism
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Siddartha Guatama
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A live and let live natured based way of life
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Daoism
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Crueler emperors, harsh punishments
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Legalism
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