Classical India

4. similar to the Bronze Age River Valley civs, ______ helped to bring about the end of the Classical world
7. as compared to China, India more highly valued this class of people, crucial for trade in any civilization
9. India is most known in the WEST as the supplier of this commodity
10. this was the most important cultural "export" from India to Central, East and S.E. Asia
12. these folks are the reason that India did not develop a massive slave society as other Classical civs
13. this group of nomadic peoples helped to bring about the decline of the Han, Romans, and Gupta Dynasties and the end of the Classical Age
14. the learning of the _____ contributed to Gupta scientific advancements...brought to India by a "great" Classical conqueror
15. considered the Indian "Golden Age"...trade contemporaries with Rome

1. this concept of the journey of the soul is shared in Hinduism and Buddhism
2. the Aryans began this religion that would dominate India to the present day
3. the "foreign" dynasty ruling over India from modern Afghanistan, Buddhist dynasty
5. ancient "university town" of the Gupta Dynasty
6. the ___ ___ provided the cultural glue that held Indian society together, therefore its the LEAST centralized of the Classical civs
8. this was the first unified Indian Dynasty of history
11. Buddhism begins to thrive under official government sanction under this ruler of the Mauryans