<p>Name______Period ______</p><p>Walker AP World History Ch 3 Reading Study Guide #1 P. 60-67</p><p>1. What empire ‘culminated’ India’s classic age?</p><p>Timeline Pg. 62</p><p>2. What were the years of the Vedic Age?______3. What event coincided with the Vedic Age? ______</p><p>4. When were the Vedas composed? ______5. What were the years of the Epic Age? ______</p><p>6. What were the years of the life of the Buddha? ______</p><p>7. What were the Years of the Mauryan Empire? (Chandragupta Maurya-end of Ashoka’s reign) ______</p><p>8. What were the years of the Gupta Empire? ______</p><p>9. How did the Aryan invasions set the stage for new forms of Indian civilization?</p><p>10. What was India’s first empire? </p><p>11. How did India differ from China in its development of civilization?</p><p>12. How did geography impact the development of Indian civilization?</p><p>13. What famous Mediterranean conqueror invaded (but could not hold) India?</p><p>14. What mountain range separates India from East Asia?</p><p>15. Describe the impact and importance of the monsoon season.</p><p>16. How did Aryan beliefs evolve into current religious beliefs in India? Pg 63.</p><p>17. What is Sanskrit? </p><p>18. What were the Vedas? Why are they important?</p><p>19. Name the three most important Epic works.</p><p>20. What were the roots of India’s caste system (varnas)? </p><p>21. What were the five Aryan social class and what group did each one represent? </p><p>22. What were the Jati? Pg. 64</p><p>23. Describe the political climate of India’s regional state period.</p><p>24. When did Alexander the Great invade? Name the small border kingdom he established.</p><p>25. Who was Chandragupta Maurya? </p><p>26. What were the major accomplishments of the Maurya Dynasty?</p><p>27. What were the major accomplishments of Ashoka?</p><p>1 28. Why did he convert to Buddhism? What was the outcome?</p><p>29. Who were the Kushans? What did they do? Pg. 65</p><p>30. How were the Gupta rulers different than the Mauryan rulers?</p><p>31. How did the Maurya dynasty and the Guptas try to deal with regionalism?</p><p>32. How were politics in India viewed differently than politics in China, Greece and Rome?</p><p>33. What were some of the general rules of India’s caste system and how did these change over time?</p><p>34. What were some of the positive effects of the caste system? Pg. 67</p><p>2</p>