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Ch.7-8
Term | Definition |
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Asoka | He brought the Mauryan empire to its greatest heights |
Chandragupta | Chandragupta relied on an adviser named Kautilya, a member of the priestly |
Asoka | Asoka became kingĀ of the Mauryan Empire in 269 b.c. |
Religious toleration | Acceptance of people who have different beliefs |
A period of turmoil | Introduced new languages, customs, and cultures |
Kalidasa | One of India's great writers |
Silk roads | Traders used them to bring silk from china to Western Asia then Rome |
Hinduism and Buddhism | India's two main faiths |
Achievements | Highly productive period in literature, art, science, and math |
Effects of Indian trade | They charged only 15 to 20 percent interest a year |
Liu Bang | One of Xiang Yus generals who eventually turned against him |
Wudi | Martial emperor |
Chinese emperor | Relied on a complex bureaucracy to help him rule |
Han empire | Expanded its trade networks |
The rich took advantage of the poor | The fall and return of the Han |
Han dynasty | Ruled for over 400 years |
Steamy costal plains to snow covered mountains | Parts of Africa |
Sahara and kalahari desert | Unsuitable for human life largest deserts in the north and south |
Local religions | All believed in one creator and included an element called animism |
Griots | The way people past down information by stories |
Earliest known culture | Nok people |
Migration | Caused mostly from environmental problems |
Group of people who shared certain cultural characteristics | The Bantu speaking people |
Effects of migration | The lands they occupied were not always unpopulated |
The Congo river | The Bantu speaking people followed |
Effects of the migration | Bantu speakers exchanged ideas |
A powerful kingdom | Aksum |
An international culture develops | Blends include traditions of the Arab peoples who crossed the Red Sea |
Aksumite religion | Believed in one god called mahrem |
Ezana becomes ruler | Changes the religion to Christianity |
Aksum | The only ancient African kingdom to have a writen language |