People Chapter 4
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marybeth93 on February 28, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aryans | fierce barbarians from central asia and the iranian plateau who invaded india |
| Dravidians | tribe of indians who were overrun by the aryans about 1500 BC |
| Mauryas | native indian family who drove the greeks out of india and est. an empire |
| asoka | ruler of maurya + controlled 2/3 of indian subcontinent |
| siddartha | founded buddhism |
| guptas | empire which started india's "golden age" |
| mongols | muslim warriors who invaded india & converted 20 percent of ppl to islam |
| babar | est. mogul empire in 1500 AD |
| william curey | "father of modern missions" + translated bible into 40 dif indian languages |
| adoniram judson | 1st foreign missonary; translated bible into burnese |
| mahatma gandi, jawaharlal nehru | leaders in indian independence + began disobedience toward british govrn. to achieve it |
| indira gandhi | prime minister f india + assassinated in 1984 |
| rajiv gandhi | prime minister after indira gandhi + removed on charges of corruption + assassinated |
| shang dynasty | developed system of writing |
| chou dynasty | china's longest ruling dynasty |
| confucius = lao-tse | china's 2 greatest philosophers during Chou dynasty |
| ch'in dynasty | empire from which china gets it's name |
| shin huang ti | 1st empreor of a inited china + built great wall of china |
| han dynasty | at height of china's power & glory |
| mongols | nomads from northern streppes of asia |
| genghis khan | leader of mongols + est. largest empire in history |
| marco polo | italian explorer |
| kublai khan | grandson of ghengis khan |
| j. hudson taylor | british missionary in china + founder of china inland mission |
| dr. sun yat-sen | leader of republic of china |
| chiang kai-sheck | commander of the chinese army + leader of nationalists after death of sun yat-sen |
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