Chapter 6

Question 1

In Mahayana Buddhism, enlightened demigods who were ready to reach Nirvana but delayed so that they might help others attain it.

Answer 1

Bodhisattvas

Question 2

Set of networks at long distance trade locations where groups of merchants could assemble during their journeys.

Answer 2

Caravan Cities

Question 3

Several of these developed into full fledged cities, especially in the deserts of Arabia

Answer 3

Caravan Cities

Question 4

A development referring to the inhabitants of the multiethnic cities that thrived in the Hellenistic world.

Answer 4

Cosmopolitans

Question 5

Literally meaning “citizens belonging to the whole world,” as opposed to a particular city-state

Answer 5

Cosmopolitans

Question 6

Buddhist sculptures, particularly from the northern Kushan territory, that show a high degree of Greek and roman influences

Answer 6

Gandharan Art

Question 7

Common form of Greek that became the international spoken and written language in the Hellenistic world.

Answer 7

Koine Greek

Question 8

This was a simpler everyday for of the Ancient Greek language

Answer 8

Koine Greek

Question 9

School of Buddhist theology that believed that the Buddha was a deity, unlike previous groups that had considered him a wise human being

Answer 9

Mahayana Buddhism

Question 10

Book that reflected sailing knowledge.

Answer 10

The Periplus

Question 11

In such books captains would record landing spots and ports.

Answer 11

The Periplus

Question 12

Means “sailing around.”

Answer 12

Periplus

Question 13

Trade routes linking China with Central Asia and the Mediterranean

Answer 13

Silk Roads

Question 14

It extended over 5,000 miles, land and sea included, and was so named because of the quantities of the main products that were traded along it.

Answer 14

Silk Roads

Question 15

We’re a major factor in the development of civilizations in China, Egypt, Persia, India, and even Europe.

Answer 15

Silk Roads

Question 16

Strategy that Alexander The Great used against his opponents

Answer 16

Phalanx

Question 17

The first in a series of powerful women to help rule over the kingdom of Nile

Answer 17

Berenice of Egypt

Question 18

Inscribed stone pillars used by Greeks to boast of their military exploits

Answer 18

Stelae

Question 19

The sense of “Not caring”

Answer 19

Ataraxia

Question 20

Philosophy of self-sufficiency

Answer 20

Cynicism

Question 21

Philosophy of detachment

Answer 21

Epicureanism

Question 22

Philosophy of involvement

Answer 22

Stoicism

Question 23

An early proponent of the Cynic school of philosophy

Answer 23

Athenian Diogenes

Question 24

The founder of a school in Athens named The Garden

Answer 24

Epicurus

Question 25

From the island of Cyprus and initiated the idea of Stoicism

Answer 25

Zeno

Question 26

Created and ruled over the Mauryan Empire

Answer 26

Chundragupta Maurya

Question 27

Shrines in the middle of every monastic community that usually had Buddhist relics and sculptures

Answer 27

Stupas

Question 28

A Hellenistic kingdom that broke away from the Seleucids around 200 BCE to establish a state in the Gandhara region modern Pakistan, which served as a bridge between South Asia and the Mediterranean Greek world.

Answer 28

Bactria