India and China

6. system of Confucian ideas
9. originated in the beliefs of the Aryans of India
11. large desert/brushland region of East Asia covering Northern and Northeastern China and Southern Mongola
13. founder of the Qin dynasty (literally means “first Qin emperor”)
14. man who started buddhism
15. makes up almost all of the entire southern peninsula
19. Mauryan king, ruled from 269 BC-232 BC, possibly greatest ruler in Indian history
20. one of the world’s largest religions, originated 2,500 years ago in India.
21. the proper way

1. her husband died building the Great Wall of China-when she found out she “wept so loudly that miles of wall collapsed, exposing the bodies of laborers.”
2. mountain range bordering Northwest India and leading into the Himalayas
3. move or switch to
4. a land of diverse languages, religions, people and geography
5. known to the Chinese as the First Teacher
7. extends from Himalaya to Arabian Sea along which Harappa and Mohenjo Daro once stood
8. belief that heaven kept order in the universe through the king
10. rigid social structure
12. a series of events that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point
16. Isolated eastern kingdom
17. a group who moved south across the Hindu Kush
18. social groups