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Ch 7 Ancient India 2020
Founded India's first empire
What is reincarnation?
Ch 7 Ancient India 2020
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What is reincarnation?
Born with new soul
The rebirth of a soul in another body
Go to temple
sleep
2
Founded India's first empire
Kalidasa
Asoka
Chandragupta Maurya
Patilaputra
3
What type of people make up the SUDRAS class?
workers who did the dirty jobs no one else would do
priests
artisans, bankers, and merchants
farmers and menial workers
4
Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome.
steppes
sita
stupa
samudra
5
A basic idea of Jainism is?
Accepting one's place in the world
Karma
Meditation
nonviolence
6
Who was the founder of the Mauryan Empire?
Chandragupta II
Ashoka
Bindusara
Chandragupta Maurya
7
The prince or leader of an Aryan tribe
Aryan
King
Raja
Sanskrit
8
Which was the most powerful varna in the caste system?
Kshatriyas
Brahmins
Vaisyas
Sudras
9
What class in the Caste System is most populated?
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Brahmin
Sudras
10
a section of an ancient religious, heroic poem
stupa
Chandra Gupta Maurya
Bhagavad Gita
pilgrim
11
What is the social group that one is born into and cannot change?
monsoons
varnas
raja
jati
12
Years after the Mauryan empire, the____ dynasty made an empire that controlled northern India.
Kalidas
Asoka
Hindu
Gupta
13
The large cities of the Indus Valley civilization featured homes made mostly of
grass
wood
stone
brick
14
What was the name of the Aryan language?
Dharma
Sanskrit
Vedic
Nirvana
15
used trade routes to travel to holy sites
pilgrim
Bhagavad Gita
stupa
Chandra Gupta Maurya
16
India is bordered on the north by
Hindu Kush Mountain Range
The Indian Ocean
The Himalayan Mountain Range
The Ganges
17
Which of the following are not one of India's three most important rivers?
Brahmaputra
Ganges
Indus
Arabian
18
What is nirvana?
A cool band!
A start to new life and end of suffering from an old life
An end of reincarnation and end of suffering of life
Rebirth into another life with a different religion
19
The classes in the caste system that develops in Aryan India are called ______.
Vaishyas
dasas
varnas
Kshatriyas
20
Kshatriyas consisted of:
priests
servants
people who performed dirty jobs
rulers and warriors
21
One of the oldest religions in the world and is the world’s third largest religion today?
judaism
Buddhism
hinduism
Christianity
22
Who founded Buddhism, around 500 BCE
Krishna
Jesus the Nazarean
Muhammed
Siddhartha Gautama
23
An epic poem about a ruler who rescues his captured wife and that grew to about 25,000 verses?
Vishnu
Bhagavad Gita
Hinduism
Ramayana
24
The Mauryan ruler _____ built new roads and hospitals for people and animals.
Asoka
Chandragupta Maurya
Kalidasa
Gupta
25
In Hinduism, the universal spirit or creator is called
Siva
Indra
Krishna
Brahman
26
The Mauryan dynasty set up a _____ government, which was controlled by the capital city.
theocratic
city-state
well-organized
democratic
27
In Hinduism, to do your dharma is to
Do your duty
Not eat cows
give to the poor
Be nice to people
28
What natural disaster possibly caused the people of the Indus Valley to abandon their cities?
hurricanes and wildfires
volcanoes and monsoons
earthquakes and floods
disease and famine
29
The two groups of Buddhists who spread the Buddha’s ideas to Southeast Asia were
Dharma and Karma
Ceylon and Sri Lanka
Nirvana and Varna
Theravada and Mahayana
30
Which was an Indian invention that had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science?
algebra
the symbol zero
algorithms
geometry
31
The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up
the Four Noble Truths
suffering
all desires
the Eightfold Path
32
What meaning does the term karma have for Hindus?
each person follows his or her own path to find god
one's deeds in life determine their next life
each person has many lives
the universe is ruled by many gods
33
What is another name for the Untouchables?
Nandi
Shudra
Aveda
Dalit
34
Who were the nomadic people that entered the Indus River Valley around the 1500s?
Sudras
Brahmins
Aryans
Vaisyas
35
What are the strong seasonal winds that influence India's climate?
monsoons
jotis
varnas
rajas
36
The Sudra class in the caste system is the...
Lowest class
Highest class
Second lowest class
Second highest class
37
How many classes are there in the caste system?
5
4
6
3
38
Which of the following is NOT one of India's geographic features?
subcontinent
rainforest
Deccan Plateau
monsoons
39
the Mauryan Empire reached its height under his rule
Bhagavad Gita
Chandra Gupta Maurya
Ashoka
stupa
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After 500 years of foreign rule, this leader formed India's second great empire...
Asoka
Kalidasa
Chandra Gupta
Chandragupta
