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Chapter 7
India and China Establish Empires
Term | Definition |
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Mauryan Empire | First empire in India, founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 321 B.C. |
Asoka | Brought the Mauryan Empire to it's greatest heights |
Religious toleration | a recognition of people's rights to hold differing religious beliefs |
Gupta Empire | Second empire in India, founded by Chandra Gupta 1 in A.D 320 |
Patriarchal | relating to a social system in which the father is the head of the family |
Matriarchal | relating to a social system in which the mother is the head of the family |
Mahayana | a sect of Buddhism that offers salvation to all and allows popular worship |
Theravada | a sect of Buddhism focusing on the strict spiritual discipline originally advocated by the Buddha |
Stupas | mounded stone structures built over Buddhist holy relics |
Brahma | a Hindu god considered the creator of the world |
Vishnu | a Hindu god considered the preserver of the world |
Shiva | a Hindu god considered the destroyer of the world |
silk roads | a system of ancient caravan routes across central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods |
Han dynasty | a Chinese dynasty that ruled from 202 B.C. to A.D 9 and again from A.D. 23 to 220 |
centralized government | a government in which power is concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are subject |
civil services | the administrative departments of a government- especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations |
monoply | a group's exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods |
assimilation | the adoption of a conqueror's culture by conquered people |