First Empire of India

Question 1

Mauryan Empire

Answer 1

the kingdom had been ruled for centuries by the Nanda family

Question 2

Asoka

Answer 2

Chandragupta’s grandson who brought the Mauryan Empire to its greatest heights

Question 3

religious toleration

Answer 3

acceptance of people who had different beliefs

Question 4

Tamil

Answer 4

India’s southern tip was home to 3 kingdoms that had never been conquered by the Mauryans

Question 5

Gupta Empire

Answer 5

oversaw a great flowering of Indian civilization, especially Hindu culture

Question 6

patriarchal

Answer 6

Indian families that were headed by the eldest male

Question 7

matriarchal

Answer 7

Indian families where the mother was the head of the family

Question 8

Mahayana

Answer 8

accepted Buddhism

Question 9

Theravada

Answer 9

held onto Buddha’s stricter, original teachings

Question 10

Brahma

Answer 10

creator of the world

Question 11

Vishnu

Answer 11

preserver of the world

Question 12

Shiva

Answer 12

destroyer of the world

Question 13

Kalidasa

Answer 13

court poet for Chandra Gupta II

Question 14

Silk Roads

Answer 14

road for trade and silk and precious materials from China to Western Asia and on to Rome

Question 15

Han Dynasty

Answer 15

rules China for more than 400 years

Question 16

centralized government

Answer 16

a central authority controls the running of a state

Question 17

civil service

Answer 17

government jobs that civilians obtained by taking examinations

Question 18

monopoly

Answer 18

occurs when a group has exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods

Question 19

assimilation

Answer 19

the process of making these conquered peoples part of Chinese culture