INDIA and CHINA

EMPIRE/ DYNASTY
MAURYAN EMPIRE

KEY LEADER/S
Chandragupta Maurya

Ashoka

GUPTA EMPIRE

Chandra Gupta I

DELHI SULTANATE

Timur

MUGHAL DYNASTY

Babur the Tiger

Akbar the Great

Jahangir

Shah Jahan
Aurangzeb

ACHIEVEMENT/S, CHARACTERISTICS

Walled city, splendid palaces, temples and parks.

Used Kautilyas Arthasastra as basis for leadership

Effective but harsh government

Brutal and efficient secret police

bureaucracy

ECONOMY

Effective tax collection

State-owned factories and shipyards

Spread Buddhism

Era of unity, peace and prosperity

Religious tolerance

all people are my children they should obtain welfare and happiness both in this world and the next.
DECLINE:

Foreign invaders from Central Asia

Divided kingdom

Gloden Age of India

Economic prosperity (trading: textile, guilds, coins)

Cultural development and advancement in learning

Crystallization of Hinduism

Kalidasas Shakuntala (story of love)

Panchatantra (Indian collection of animal gables in verse and prose)

Stone temples and stupas

DECLINE:

Muslim invaders

Fusion of Indo-Muslim

Sikhism religion

Urdu language

Decline of Buddhism

Founder

Military exploits

Effective and judicious administration

Religious tolerance

Abolished special taxes for non-Muslim

Honest and tolerant

Promoted art, literature, and architecture

Conquest and expansion

Extravagant spending

Military expeditions

Religious persecution

Reinstituted special taxes on on-Muslims (jizya)

Military campaigns

CHINA
QIN

HAN

SUI

TANG

SONG

YUAN

MING

QING

DECLINE:

Opposition from other Indian nationalities

Shang Zhou Qin Han Sui Tang Song Yuan Ming Qing
Shih Huang Di

Unified China in an empire

Known as the First emperor

Strong, authoritarian government; centralized power; legalist

Transportation system

Standardized weights

Great wall of China

Terra cotta warriors

Burned Confucian classics

Liu Bang

Founder

Expansion to Korea and North India

Back to Confucianism

Civil service exam

Technological advancements, medicine, art and historiography

Buddhism

Invention of paper

Silk Road (trading)

Yang Jian

Reunified China

Grand Canal in China

Repressed Buddhism
Li Yuan

Expansion to the South of China

Advanced trading in Indian Ocean

Reinstituted civil service exam

GOLDEN AGE

Poetry, calligraphy, landscape painting, philosophy, political thought, historiography, astronomy, chemistry
and medicine

Woodblock printing

Buddhism blossomed

Japan and Korea were influenced

Zhao Kuanying

Founder

5 dynasties/ 10 kindoms

Autocratic government

Foot-binding practice lily foot

Neo confucianism
Mongols

First foreign dynasty

Kublai Khan

Developed novels, opera

Marco Polo as bureaucrat

Zhu Yuanzhang

Tributary system

Expeditions

Portuguese traders

White Lotus rebellion

Jesuit missionaries
Chien Lung

2nd foreign dynasty

Expansion of borders to greatest extent

Opium trade at Canton
Anti-Manchu sentiment (Taiping Rebellion)
Anti-Westerner sentiment (Boxer Rebellion)
Literature and drama flourished

INDIA and CHINA

EMPIRE/ DYNASTY
MAURYAN EMPIRE

KEY LEADER/S
Chandragupta Maurya

Ashoka

GUPTA EMPIRE

Chandra Gupta I

DELHI SULTANATE

Timur

MUGHAL DYNASTY

Babur the Tiger

Akbar the Great

Jahangir

ACHIEVEMENT/S, CHARACTERISTICS

Walled city, splendid palaces, temples and parks.

Used Kautilyas _______________ as basis for leadership

Effective but _______ government

_______ and efficient secret police

bureaucracy

ECONOMY

Effective tax collection

___________ factories and shipyards

Spread ________ religion

Era of u_____, p______ and p_______

___________ tolerance

all people are my _________ they should obtain welfare and happiness both in this world and the _____.
DECLINE:

Foreign invaders from __________

Divided kingdom

___________ of India

__________ prosperity (trading: textile, guilds, coins)

Cultural development and advancement in learning

Crystallization of ________

Kalidasas ___________ (story of love)

___________ (Indian collection of animal gables in verse and prose)

Stone temples and ________

DECLINE:

_______ invaders

Fusion of ___________

______ religion

_____ language

Decline of Buddhism

Founder

Military exploits

Effective and judicious administration

Religious tolerance

Abolished special taxes for __________

Honest and tolerant

CHINA
QIN

HAN

SUI

TANG

SONG

YUAN

Promoted art, literature, and architecture

Conquest and expansion

Shah Jahan

Extravagant spending

Military expeditions
Aurangzeb

Religious persecution

Reinstituted special taxes on on-Muslims (______)

Military campaigns

DECLINE:

Opposition from other _______ nationalities

Shang Zhou Qin Han Sui Tang Song Yuan Ming Qing
Shih Huang Di

Unified China in an empire

Known as the ______________

Strong, authoritarian government; centralized power; __________

Transportation system

Standardized weights

______________ of China

____________ warriors

Burned ________________ classics

Liu Bang

Founder

Expansion to Korea and North India

Back to Confucianism

________ service exam

Technological advancements, medicine, art and historiography

Buddhism

Invention of ___________

___________ (trading)
Yang Jian

Reunified China

________________ in China

Repressed Buddhism
Li Yuan

Expansion to the South of China

Advanced trading in Indian Ocean

Reinstituted civil service exam

________________

Poetry, calligraphy, landscape painting, philosophy, political thought, historiography, astronomy, chemistry
and medicine

_____________ printing

Buddhism blossomed

__________ and ________ were influenced

Zhao Kuanying

Founder

5 dynasties/ 10 kindoms

_____________ government

Foot-binding practice __________

Neo Confucianism
Mongols

First foreign dynasty

Kublai Khan

Developed novels, opera

MING

Zhu Yuanzhang

QING

Chien Lung

_____________ as bureaucrat
Tributary system
Expeditions
Portuguese traders
____________________ rebellion
____________ missionaries
2nd foreign dynasty
Expansion of borders to greatest extent
__________ trade at Canton
______________ sentiment (Taiping Rebellion)
_____________ sentiment (Boxer Rebellion Empress Wu Tsi)
Literature and drama flourished