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Ch 7-8
Term | Definition |
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Who calculated pi? | Aryabhta |
Most Indians families were what? | Patirachal |
Who wrote Arthasastra | Kautilya |
What 3 gods were most important | Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu |
What did Asoka do | Brought Maurya empire to where it is now |
What is Tamil | A language |
What was Gupta empire | Indian civilization |
How did Seleucus stay at peace? | He sent a amnassador, and chandragupta capital. |
What did Buddha stress? | Each person could state peace called Nirvana |
Hose ego held Buddhas stricter were called? | Theravada |
Achievements in India | Mathematics, art, literature, and science |
Who was India's greatest writer? | Kalidasa |
Kalidasa most famous play was | Shakuntala |
How many Tamil poems still exist? | Over 2,000 |
Silk roads? | System of ancient caravan routes |
He main difference between Hindu and Buddhist | Subject matter |
Effects on trade in India | They didn't find it as dangerous anymore |
Han Dynasty | Ruled China for more than 400 year |
centralized government | Central authority controls the running of a state. |
Where does Africa spread | Across the equator |
There coastline | Few harbors, ports, and inlets |
How big is Africa | It's the second largest continent in the world |
It stretches how much? | 4,600 miles east to west 5,000 miles north to south |
Total square miles | 11.7 million |
Sahara | Largest desert |
Cause of migration | Human desire for change |
Migration begins | 2,000 years ago or earlier |
They had to find ways with Bantu | Either get outs their way or make peace |
What did the Bantu speakers do? | Exchanged ideas and intermarried with each other |
Bantu speakers also brought? | New techniques of agriculture. |
East African kingdom of Kush did? | Became so powerful they use north and conquer Egypt |
Aksum | African Kingdom known as Ethiopian and Eritrea. |
Adulis | At present day massawa |
Ezana | Succeeded to the throne an infant |
When he finally became ruler he? | Side Christianity is official religion |
Aksum Isolated | Islam spread the lands the conquered |