Exam 2 HIST 1111

I was the wife of Siddhartha Gautama & mother of his son & became a nun

The priests at the temple in Yazd who have kept an eternal flame burning are of what religion?

The basic doctrine of Buddhism is summarized in:

I was an important figure in development of democracy in ancient Athens, creating demes system

What did Ashoka Maurya do that he later regretted, which led him to become a Buddhist and kind?

Satrap

Full citizenship in a Greek polis was limited to:

Which is true of the Athenian Council after development of democracy?

Someone who was not interested in civic life and did not pay attention to the issues of the day

I died before I could launch an invasion of Egypt and my body was buried in Pasagarde

The original homeland of the Indo Europeans were located:

The Four Noble Truths are associated with which religion?

Which of the following statements is true of the Persian Royal Road?

I overthrew the gov of Magadha & built first empire in classical India & became Jain monk

Which list of men involved in indian history is in chronological order?

Kalinga

Indian castes were subdivided into smaller groups, based on occupation, called:

What happened to Spartan boys when they were seven years old?

Which Indian caste included the ruling and military elites, such as rajas and warriors?

Because of their religious beliefs, Jain monks:

I was an Indian astronomer & mathematician who calculated length of year & earth rotation

Which of the following is true of the Saraswati River?

Cyrus the Achaemenid was buried

Persian emperors depended on auditors/spies known as:

Bull-jumping was a sport practice by:

Ephors

Who wrote the Arthashastra?

The reason one branch of Jains were referred to as sky-clad Jains is:

Little is known of the Harappan civilization in large part because:

Which of the following contributed to demise of Minoan and Mycenaean?

The religion that taught that there were two deities, one good and one evil, who fought:

Which civilization had strict guidelines for size of brinks, showing strong central gov?

Which was the first civilization to domesticate cotton and chickens?

The people in ancient India who did jobs that rendered them ritually unclean were called:

Nonviolence to all souls is the definition of:

I was the "evil god" who is involved in a long war with the good god, according to Zoroastrians

Upanishads

The collapse of the Harappan civilization seems to have been caused by:

Mohenjo Daro

Sewer systems and indoor plumbing to provide water are in which civilizations?

Gathas

Which of the following is true of Spartan women?

I was responsible for building of the Persian Royal Road and began the satrapy system

Soma refers to

What group was Herodotus talking about when he wrote "neither rain nor snow can stay couriers"?

According to the Four Noble Truths:

Who did the Greeks believe was the author of the Iliad and Odyssey?

I built an empire that stretched from Macedonia to India, but no one was ready to take over

The only major religion that does not have an individual who can be identified as its founder:

The concept of 0 and the game of chess were both developed:

total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the phases of a person's existence

Siddhartha Gautama

Civilization in Persia began in which river valley?

Which of the following statements is true of early civilizations of Greece?

I was the founder of Jainism, an extreme religion of India

Dravidians

What happened when a baby in ancient Sparta was born with a physical handicap?

When Siddhartha Gautama slipped out of his father's palace compound for a day, what happened?

The "worker bees" of Indian caste system, so peasants and manual laborers:

According to early Hinduism, when an individual soul breaks out of the cycle of life:

The 3 Jewels of Buddhism are:

How were Ashoka Maurya and Chandragupta Maurya related?

deme

Fire is a positive symbol rather than a negative one in which religion?

The first of the Four Noble Truths

Who ended debt slavery in Athens?

The dark-skinned natives of Indian subcontinent, looked down on Indo Europeans, were:

Greek civilization began in:

The Avestas and Gathas were holy books of which religion?

According to Buddhist tradition, what happened to Buddha's family?

the Persian ruler who built a magnificent new capital city called Persepolis

Which of the following was located on the Peloponnesus?

Fire is a positive rather than a negative symbol in which religion?

Upon Alexander the Great's death, what happened to his kingdom?

Indus

Strategos