History Chapter 7 Terms and Names
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- Mauryan Empire
- started by Chandragupta Maurya in about 321 B.C. It centered on the lower Ganges River and stretched to the Indus.
- Asoka
- grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who brought the empire to its greatest height; great warrior who eventually promoted Buddhism
- Religous Toleration
- acceptance of people who held other beliefs
- Tamil
- a language spoken in 3 kingdoms of southern India never conquered by the Mauryans
- Gupta Empire
- India's second empire; it started in Magadha in 320 A.D. by Chandra Gupta (no relation to India's first emperor); led to flowering of Indian civilization, especially Hindu culture
- Patriarchal
- family headed by the eldest male
- Matriarchal
- mother, not the father, was head of the house-hold (Tamils of southern India)
- Mahayana
- one of the two sects in the Buddhist faith that taught that Buddha was god. It was a religion that offered salvation to all and popular worship
- Theravada
- the other sect of Buddhism that adheres to the original teachings of Buddhism; also called Hinayana
- Brahma
- Hindu god; creator of the world
- Vishnu
- Hindu god; preserver of the world
- Shiva
- Hindu god; destroyer of the world
- Kalidasa
- one of India's greatest writers; may have been the court poet for Chandra Gupta II who reigned from 375-415 A.D.; wrote the Shakuntala
- Silk Roads
- Caravan route that brought silk from China to western Asia and on to Rome
- Han Dynasty
- started by Liu Bang in 202 B.C.; it would last for more than 400 years, over two different time periods of about two centuries each
- centralized government
- a central authority controls the running of a state
- civil service
- government jobs that civilians obtained by taking examinations
- Monopoly
- occurs when a group has exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods
- Assimilation
- process of making conquered peoples part of your country's culture