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Ayla Polk
Chapter 7-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Who was the person who wrote a handbook for rulers name , " Arthasastra " ?. | Kautilya . |
| What did Seleucus do to stay at peace ?. | He sent an ambassador , Megasthenes to Chandraguptas Capital . |
| Asoka . | He brought the Mauryan Empire to it's greatest heights . |
| Tamil . | A language , and the people are called Tamil people . |
| Gupta Empire . | This empire oversaw a great flowering of Indian civilization , especially the Hindu culture . |
| Most Indian families were ?.. | Patriarchal . |
| Those who belong to the Buddhas stricton belonged to ? | Theravada . |
| What three gods were most important . | 1.) Brahma . 2.) Vishnu . 3.) Shiva . |
| Kalidasa . | One of India's great writers . |
| Who calculated the value of pi ?. | Aryabhta . |
| Silk roads . | Got it's name because traders brought silk from China to Western Asia , to Rome . |
| Who was the aristocratic general ?. | Xiang yu . |
| Which dynasty ruled China for over 400 years ? | Han Dynasty . |
| Centralized Government . | A central authority controls the running of a state . |
| Wudi . | Martial Emperor . |
| Civil service jobs . | Government jobs that civilians obtain by taking examinations . |
| Tsetse fly . | Found in the rain forest , deadly insect . |
| What did the tsetse fly prevent ?. | It prevented in adopters , especially Europeans . |
| Savannas . | The topsoil throughout Africa is thin , and heavy rain strips away minerals . |
| San of the Kalarhair Desert , and the BaMbuti . | Are still hunger - gathers . |
| San . | They travel in small bands of a few related families . |
| West Afriacans earlier at known culture ?. | Nok . |
| Push - pull factors . | Can either push people out of an area , or pull them into one . |
| Migration . | Changes the lives of those who migrate and also of the people in communities where they settle . |
| Bantu - speaking people . | Originally live in the Savanna , south of the Sahara , in the area that is now southeastern Nigera . |
| What River this the Bantu people follow ? | The Congo River . |
| Effects of migration . | The lands they occupied were not always unpopulated . |
| Where was Aksum located ?. What sea ?. | The Red Sea . |
| Periplus of the Erythraean Sea . | Was a Greek guidebook that mentioned Aksum . |
| Adulis . | Near present day Massawa . |
| Exceptionally strong ruler of Aksum .? | Ezana . |
| Ezana . | First conquered the part of the Arabian peninsula is now Yemen . |
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