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Study Guide India Sections 3 and 4
India’s Early Kingdom
1. ____________________, a kingdom in northeastern India, became large and powerful by 400 B.C.
2. They became wealthy by trading products from their ___________, _____________, and ________.
3. Near the end of the 4th century B.C., their last leader _________________ _____________ founded
the ___________ empire by conquering many territories on the Indian subcontinent.
The Maurya Empire
1. __________________ and his powerful army formed India’s first great empire in ________ B.C.
2. The ____________ Empire was very organized because he set up a ___________________ to help
him efficiently run his newly conquered people. He also began a system of __________ to help watch
over them.
3. He improved business and __________ for India by building ____________ and ____________.
4. __________, __________, and _______ were the main farm crops in India at this time.
5. In ______ B.C., his grandson ___________ became emperor. He also conquered many new lands
until finding out that over ____________ people died in taking ___________, an area on India’s east
coast. Having his forces kill so many people affected him so much that he switched religions and
became a _______________.
6. From paragraph 7 in the Exploring World History book, list at least 5 ways Asoka set out to win
support of his people through kindness. Write them on the back of this paper.
7. What empire covered the most land ever in India? _______________
8. After Asoka’s death the empire _______________ because the emperors were weak. It split up into
smaller ______________. Still __________________ ______________ were sent to other lands to
spread his peaceful idea.
The Gupta Empire
1. By AD ______ the Gupta Dynasty arose in ________________ India. This family would rule until
AD 650 when a group by the name of the __________ _______ invaded India.
2. India soared to new heights under Gupta rule. During the rule of __________ _________ ____ India
had its _____________ ________. During this time the people of the Gupta Empire developed
________, ____________, _______________, __________________, and ___________ working.
3. Artists painted ____________ or wall paintings. Poets and writers like ______________ wrote in
_____________, the language of the empire.
4. Indian _________________ located the planets and proved that the earth was ___________.
5. Mathematicians invented the ____________ system or the _______-___________ numeral system.
Gupta mathematicians also came up with the symbol for __________.
6. Doctors invented over 120 ___________ instruments. Teachers formed ____________________
which were probably among the first in the world.
7. After the White Huns invaded the country India was governed by ____________________________
_______________. Around 1200 _____________ advanced slowly onto the Indian subcontinent
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India’s Legacy
India has added two major religions to mankind. They are _______________ and _____________.
These two religions influence many buildings, temples and shrines worldwide. A huge stone complex
in Cambodia with Hindu roots is named ___________ ________.
__________________ is huge in India today, but less than 1 out of 100 people in India follow
________________.
India produces the most motion pictures in the entire world. The capital of their film industry is
_________________.
____________ helped India gain freedom from ____________ rule in 1947 by practicing _________.
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Study Guide India Sections 3 and 4
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ahimsa
Angkor Wat
art
Asoka
astronomers
Bollywood
British
Buddhism
Buddhist
Buddhist missionaries
bureaucracy
canals
Chandra Gupta II
Chandragupta
Chandragupta Maurya
decimal system
declined
developed vaccines
farms
flat
forests
Gandhi
Golden Age
Hinduism
Kalidasa
Kalinga
kingdoms
led by example
made edicts ordering kindness
Magadha
mathematics
Maurya
Maurya
metal
mines
murals
music
musical
Muslims
northeast
rice
roads
round
Sanskrit
sent teachers through empire
set up hospitals
Small kingdoms fighting and dying out
softened punishments for crimes
spies
surgical instruments
tea
trade
United States
universities
wheat
White Huns
writing
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