1. How Is the Focus in India Different Than in China?

1. How is the focus in India different than in China?

2. Who laid the foundations for Indian civilizations? Who controlled much of the farmland?

3. Who are Brahmans?

4. Define Buddha:

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5. When was the Mauryan Dynasty and how did it collapse?

6. Where and when did the Gupta arise?

7. What religion was practiced and how were Brahmans seen?

8. What were the similarities and differences of focus on China and India?

Formative Influences

9. What did Alexander the Great do for India?

10. How did the Himalayas help India?

11. What helps explain why India was invaded more often than China?

Brahman Culture

12. What was the Vedic and Epic Age?

13. Who were the Aryans?

14. What is Sanskrit? What are Vedas?

15. What was Rig-Veda? What were the Upanishads?

16. Describe Indian society and politics: (include social classes)

17. What type of religion did the Aryans bring to India?

The Mauryan Dynasty

18. Describe Chandragupta Maurya:

19. What was Chandragupta’s political style?

20. Who was Ashoka?

21. What religion did Ashoka convert to? What were his beliefs?

22. What happened after Ashoka died? Who were the Kushans?

The Guptas

23. When was the Gupta Kingdom?

24. How was the Mauryan dynasty different from the Gupta?

25. Who defeated the Guptas?

Political Institutions

26. What was the most persistent political feature of India?

27. What were the accomplishments of the Guptas?

28. How has the caste system served as an extent to the political institution?

The Formation of Hinduism

29. Describe Hinduism: (use vocabulary)

Buddhism

30. Describe Buddhism (use vocabulary)

31. How does Buddhism and Hinduism differ?

32. How are Confucian and Hindu values alike?

Arts and Sciences

33. What are the important features of Indian art?

34. Why was Nalanda famous?

35. What are stupas?

Economy and Society

36. Where did the majority of Indians live?

37. Describe women of India

38. How did the Indian version of women differ from China?

39. What territories were involved in India’s trading networks?

40. What was the difference between India and China’s emphasis on social and economic structure?

China and India Compared

41. Who had a greater contact with other societies and civilizations? India or China?

42. How are India and China similar with regards to religion?

43. Compare social values of China and India

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44. Define scholar gentry –

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