HIS101 CH4a

the nation who found the first Empire in India

ruler of Mauryans; Mauryan Empire builder; conquered around Indus river and the West-Central India

• considered a model ruler of Mauryan;
• Rock inscriptions of his edicts are the oldest deciphered Indian writing;
• converted to Buddhism after Kalinga war;
• Appointed "dharma officials"- to investigate public welfare

Buddhist shrines in Bharhut and Sanchi; example of Buddhism art

Panini's grammar

a masterpiece of Sanskrit and an epic

most influential religion texts of all Indian 

• religion of India; three major development shaping in Hindu:
• the consolidation of the caste system
• the increasing dominance of theistic devotionalism(the cults)
• the intellectual reconciliation of those development with toe older ascetic

a class system in India

a religion that focuses on he quest for Nirvana and the "extraordianry norm"

policy of linking Hellenes with Iranians in political power, marriage, and culture bore fruit more lasting than empire. 

emphasis on building Greek-style cities as Hellenistic culture

• Bactria's Greek satrap broke away from the Seleucids
• Bactria and the sccessors were major role of spreading Buddhism from India to Central Asia
• Millinda(Bactria's successor)- "The Questions of King Millinda"(a religious text in Buddhism)

Nomadic tribes people who dwelled on the Eurasian plains from Eastern Europe to the borders of China and Iran. 

• Under Mithradates I, emerged as a New Eurasian Empire
• - silk road

trade road from China to the Indan Ocean coast

Scythians tribes; overran Northeastern Iran; was defeated by Kushan tribes

King of Kushan kingdom of India; he was the greatest patron of Buddhism; influenced China to be Buddhism.

the highest top dog group of Caste System

the founder of Buddhism

re-birth

a moral as well as physical economy in which every act has unavoidable results

the primary forms in which the Supreme Lord ws worshipped; goddess figure in Hinduism