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CHAPTER 7
India and China Establishes
Empires
(400B.C. – A.D. 550)
Mauryan Empire
• Chandragupta ruled this empire
in India
Religious Toleration
• The acceptance of people who
held different religious beliefs
Tamil Language
• What language did the Tamil
people speak?
Gupta Empire
• India’s second Empire
• Hinduism thrived here
Patriarchal
• Families run by the eldest male
• This was in India
Matriarchal
• Families headed by the eldest
female
• This was in Southern India
Mahayana
• Buddhist who accepted new
beliefs that were not taught by
Buddha, but were developed
after his death
Theravada
• Buddhist that believe in
Buddha’s more strict original
beliefs
Stupas
• Wealthy Buddhist merchants
who were eager to do good
deeds paid for the construction
of __________.
• Mounded stone structures built
over holy relics
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
• Hindus 3 most important gods
Brahma
• Hindu god
• Creator of the world
Vishnu
• Preserver of the world
• Hindu god
Shiva
• Hindu god
• Destroyer of the world
Silk Road
• Traders used this road to bring
silk from China to western Asia
and then to Rome
Han Dynasty
• Liu Bang founded this dynasty in
China
• Most Chinese today claim to be
from this dynasty, or “people of
the ____”
• Controlled China for 400 years
Centralized government
• A government in which a central
authority controls the running
of the state
Civil Service
• Jobs in which a person had to
take a test in order to work for
the government
Monopoly
• Occurs when a group has
exclusive control over the
production and distribution of a
certain good
Assimilation
• The process of making
conquered peoples part of a
culture