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Obiol- India/ China
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mandate of Heaven | belief that a king is chosen by heavenly order because of his talent and virtue |
| Harrapans | a peaceful people who farmed and traded with their neighbors |
| Dynasty | line of rulers from the same family |
| Sanskrit | written language developed by the Aryans |
| Aristocrat | noble whose wealth came from land ownership |
| Oracle Bones | the oldest example of writing in China; used to tell the future |
| Daoism | taught that people should turn to nature and give up worldly desires |
| Caste System | Social group that a person is born into and cannot change |
| Legalism | taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws |
| Confucianism | taught that people needed to have a sense of duty to their family and community in order to bring peace |
| centralized government | A system in which the rulers run the government from a capital city |
| determines a person's job, social group, and marriage | caste system |
| silk, tea, spices | sent out of China on the Silk Road |
| If a couple in India had no children, the man could | marry another wife |
| Indian astronomers recognized that the Earth | revolved around the sun |
| Manny Indian marriages, even today, are | arranged |
| became popular because it rejected the caste system | Buddhism |
| Reincarnation | Belief that people pass through many lives |
| pay their rent by giving the landlord a portion of their crops | tenant farmers |
| Upper caste boys had a ___ to teach them | guru |
| Golden Age of Indian Culture | Gupta Empire |
| based his rule on the ideas of legalism | Qin Shihuangdi |
| used caste system to help rule people who outnumbered them | Aryans |
| Chinese inventions that allowed soldiers to fight on horseback | saddle and stirrups |
| period of violence in China that made people look for ways to restore order | Warring States Period |
| Indian _______________________ recognized that the Earth revolved around the sun | astronomers |
| Only _________ of China's land is good for farming. | one- tenth |