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Ancient Civilizations: India and China
Content:Other
Available From:National Geographic Society
Media Type:CD-ROM
Release Date:1996
Audience:Elementary Education
Middle/Junior High School
High School
Language:English
Author:National Geographic Society
ISBN:0792232151; 9780792232155
Subject:History
Philosophy and Religion
Subheading:Buddhism
Confucianism
Hinduism
History, Early (Before 17th Century)
Taoism
Region:East Asia
South Asia
Country:China
India



Abstract:

Travel to India to investigate the ancient Indus Valley civilization, the Aryans, the rise of Hinduism and Buddhism, King Ashoka, and the Mauryan Dynasty. Visit Mohenjo Daro--one of the world's oldest cities!

Continue your travels in ancient China, and examine this culture's achievements in art, technology and government. Learn more about its contributions to religion and philosophy, including Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Meet powerful emperors who unified a vast land, and see how the present-day Chinese are linked to their ancestors by centuries of tradition.






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