EasternCivFinal22

Which religion came to India first?

Hinduism

What is the earliest known Indian civilization?

Dravidians

Who conquered India by the 1800’s?

England

Pakistan and India were separated primarily for what reason?

Religions (Hinduism v. Islam)

The holiest and biggest river in India is?

Ganges River

Islam was founded by which person?

Muhammad

Most famous Indian nationalist. His work, including the salt march and fasting, would in the end gain India’s independence from England.

Gandhi

What is the goal of life in Hinduism?

Free the soul from the body so it can reunite with Brahman

Chandragupta established which empire?

Mauryan Empire

Which empire existed when Europeans began to come and trade with India?

Mughal Empire

Pakistan translates into what?

Holy Land

The river where India’s first known civilization developed on

Indus River

Jainism was founded by which man?

Mahavira

What did Shah Jahan build?

Taj Mahal

Buddhism’s guidelines for proper living are found in what?

Eightfold Path

Akbar’s most impressive political achievement was what?

Religious Tolerance

Who was the first European explorer to reach India by sea?

Vasco da Gama

The Sikhs are found where in India?

Northwest

Name two mountain ranges in Southern Asia.

Hindu Kush and the Himalayas

Islam’s holy book is what?

Koran (Qur’an)

The famous female prime minister of India

Indira Gandhi

Who is responsible for sending missionaries across Asia, spreading Buddhism?

Asoka

Muslim invaders established government in India in the form of what?

Delhi Sultanate

Europeans came to India for which reason?

Trade

Does India still have remnants of a caste system?

Yes

Half of India is made up of this landform.

Deccan Plateau

Sikhism is a combination of which two religions?

Hinduism and Islam

This queen was made Empress of India

Queen Victoria

the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences

karma

The formation of the idea of zero was invented in which empire?

Gupta Empire

This rebellion was led against the British during the mid 1850’s.

Sepoy Rebellion

List the capitals of India, Pakistan, and Nepal

New Delhi, Katmandu, Islamabad

This pass is famous and helped aid migrants into South Asia

Khyber Pass

What is the holiest building for the Sikhs and became famous for the standoff between radicals and the Indian army there?

Golden Temple

Who is the founder of Sikhism?

Guru Nanak

Who brought the basic foundations for Hinduism to India?

Aryans

Chandragupta was responsible for establishing which empire?

Maurya Empire

What happened in Amritsar in 1919?

Protestors killed

Why is a perfectly unified India always a hard goal?

Religious, linguistic, and cultural differences

This river flows into the Bay of Bengal and is one of the three large rivers which begins at the Himalayas

Ganges River

What type of religion is Islam?

Monotheistic

British Queen who set up the British East India Company

Elizabeth I

What are spheres of influence?

a region of dominance or a geographic region of activity in which a state, organization, or person is dominant

The silk road linked China with what?

The West

Which dynasty did Shi Huangdi establish?

Qin Dynasty

Which man would lead the communist forces in China?

Mao Zedong

The capital of Modern China is?

Beijing

Buddhism was founded by who?

Buddha

This Italian man would travel to China when it was run by Kublai Khan

Marco Polo

What is the dynastic cycle?

rise and fall of dynasties

This man was the first true emperor of China.

Qin Shi Huangdi

The Tang and Song Dynasties both saw intellectual and technological growth. This growth is known as a what?

Golden Age

This man was the leader of the Nationalist military forces in China.

Chiang Kai-shek

This sea is next to northern China and North/South Korea

Yellow Sea

This man would establish Confucianism

Confucius

This Mongol would unite the Mongols and build the world’s largest empire ever seen at the time.

Genghis Khan

What is filial piety?

loyalty and respect for the elderly

The Great Wall of China extends approximately how many miles?

4000 miles (1500 in one stretch)

This Dynasty would overthrow the Yuan Dynasty in the 1300’s.

Ming Dynasty

The Cultural Revolution tried to get rid of what in China?

Old traditions and to revive spirit and enthusiasm

This river is way down south in China and flows into Hong Kong

Xi River

This man was the founder of Daoism

Lao Tzu

This man revolted against the last Chinese imperial family

Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Exemption from the legal jurisdiction of a country of residence granted to people such as foreign diplomats

Extraterritoriality

These warriors were made of clay but were modeled after an individual man

terracotta warriors

This dynasty was the last dynasty in China

Qing Dynasty

This man succeeded Mao Zedong

Deng Xiaoping

This river is the central river in China that flows into the East China Sea and through Shanghai.

Yangtze River

This man founded Legalism

Han Feizi

This man is the founder of Communism

Karl Marx

In Marxist theory, the class of industrial workers whose only asset is the labor they sell to an employer

proletariat

Name two things that China would trade on the Silk Road

silk/tea/spices/porcelain/cloth/woven goods/gold

This is the first Chinese dynasty beginning somewhere between 2100-1600 BC

Xia Dynasty

This island is claimed by China but they claim to be independent. The Nationalists in China fled here after Mao took over

Taiwan

This river is found in the north flowing to the Yellow Sea.

Yellow River

What symbol represents the balance preached by Daoism?

Yin Yang

This man was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself. He existed during the time of the Warring Kingdoms.

Mencius

This program had farmers produce a certain amount of harvest for the government

Collective Farming/ Quota System

What is the Chinese name of the Yellow River.

Huang He

List six Chinese dynasties

Xia/Shang/Zhou/Qin/Han/Sui/Tang/Song/Yuan/Ming/Qing

This event occurred when students who were protesting were slaughtered

Tiananmen Square

This mountain range forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and continues east and south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain

Kunlun Shan

This man sent missionaries across Asia to spread Buddhism

Asoka

This child was the last Chinese emperor

Pu Yi

What is the capital city of modern Japan?

Tokyo

What are the four main islands of Japan?

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu

What is the name of the tectonic plate boundary that runs along the rim of the Pacific Ocean and causes seismic activity in Japan?

Ring fo Fire

What two island chains are located to the northeast and southwest of the Japanese main islands?

Kurils and Ryukyus

The ______ are the indigenous people of northern Japan who have been discriminated against and exploited by Yamato Japanese people at various points in history

Ainu

The _______ are the descendants of butchers and tanners in Japan who are looked down upon and discriminated against by Buddhists across the country

Burakumin

The earliest known Neolithic inhabitants of Japan were the _____ people; they lived in the region from 5500 - 250 BC, produced a type of cord patterned pottery, and originally obtained food by hunting, fishing, and plant gathering before agriculture was developed around 400 BC

Jomon

Wet rice cultivation was introduced to Japan by folks from the _______ culture (250 BC - 250 CE), or a people group that likely emerged in the region as a result of intermarriage between earlier inhabitants of Japan and immigrants from Korea

Yayoi

Japanese emperors are claimed to be the direct descendants of the sun goddess _______, a deity who played a critical role in the religious myths about the creation of the Japanese home islands

Amaterasu

According to Shinto tradition, spirits called ______ inhabit the universe and control all events in nature and human affairs

Kami

Shinto shrines near sacred sites in nature are marked at the entrance by _______, which are symbols of Shinto tradition

torii gates

Tradition holds that a “divine warrior” named ________ established a kingdom on the Yamato plain of Honshu and set himself up as the first emperor of Japan

Jimmu

The Japanese engaged in _______, or the deliberate adoption and adaptation of certain technologies or cultural practice from a neighboring society, when they built a new capital city in 794 CE that was modeled on Chang’an, the capital city of Tang China

selective borrowing

The *Tale of Genji*, which was one of the first novels in world history and was written by a female author in the Heian Era named _________, focused on court life and the love affairs of an illegitimate son of a Japanese emperor

Murasaki Shikibu

Many tombs from the Yamato Era were surrounded by collections of ______, or clay figurines of humans, animals, tools, ad musical instruments that were though to protect buried individuals from evil spirits.

haniwa

________ (572-622) was a government official and relative of a popular Japanese empress who sent the nation’s first ambassadors to China in 607 and helped import technology, ideas, and innovations to Japan from mainland Asia

Prince Shotoku Taishi