chapter 2 lesson 3 indus valley

Question 1

a dialect is:

Answer 1

varieties of languages

Question 2

India’s core regions include:

Answer 2

mountain ranges, river valleys, a dryer interior plateau and fertile coastal plains

Question 3

directly south of the Himalaya is the ________ river, which is one of the chief regions of the Indian culture

Answer 3

Ganges

Question 4

a relatively dry plateau forms the backbone of the modern state of _________

Answer 4

Pakistan

Question 5

In ancient times, the Indus Valley had a more moderate ______ and served as the ___________

Answer 5

climate, cradle of Indian Civilazation.

Question 6

India’s two major river valleys are the _______ and ________

Answer 6

Ganges, Indus

Question 7

The __________ extends from the Ganges Valley to the southern tip of India

Answer 7

Deccan Plateau

Question 8

The _________ us the primary feature of India’s climate

Answer 8

monsoon

Question 9

what is a monsoon?

Answer 9

a seasonal wind pattern in souther Asia that blows warm moist air from the southwest during the summer, bringing heavy rains, and cold, dry air from the northwest during the winter

Question 10

the wettest place on earth is in the mountains of ________

Answer 10

Northeast India

Question 11

the region most affected by the monsoon is

Answer 11

West coast near Mumbia

Question 12

Civilization emerged in the Indus River Valley between ________

Answer 12

3000 BC and 1500 BC

Question 13

the Indus River reaches from ________ to _________

Answer 13

Himalaya to Arabian Sea

Question 14

the two major cities of the Indus River Valley were _________ and __________

Answer 14

Harappa and Mohenjo Daro

Question 15

Harappa had ___________ inhaitants

Answer 15

35,000

Question 16

Mohenjo Daro had about ________ inhabitants

Answer 16

35,000 - 40,000

Question 17

Describe the design of both of the cities:

Answer 17

they were carefully planned. The broad main streets ran in a north south direction crossed by smaller east west roads

Question 18

Harappan rulers based their power on __________

Answer 18

belief in divine assistance

Question 19

In Harapa, the royal palace and the holy temple were located in the ________, otherwise known as a __________

Answer 19

citadel, fortress

Question 20

Harappan economy was based on ________ and consisted of ______, __________, and _________.

Answer 20

trade, wheat, barley and peas

Question 21

The harappan’s traded ________ with the _______in exchange for Harappan ______, __________, __________, ________ and __________________

Answer 21

food and textiles, Sumerians, copper, lumber precious stones, cotton and various luxury goods

Question 22

One possible reason for the end of the Indus Valley civilization was:

Answer 22

Climate change

Question 23

around _______ there was a ____________, which many historians explain as the result of _____________

Answer 23

1500 BC, major shift in India’s culture, foreign migration

Question 24

around 2000 bc a group of Indo- Europeans known as ________ moved south across the Hindu Kush mountain range into the plains of northern India

Answer 24

Aryans

Question 25

the ________ lived in _________ and had a ____________

Answer 25

Aryans, tribal groups, strong warrior tradition

Question 26

From around 1500 BC to 1000 BC the ________ peoples:

Answer 26

Aryan, gradually advanced eastward from the indus valley, across the fertile plain of the Ganges and later southward to the Duncan Plateau.

Question 27

The ____________were decendants of the Indus Valley People

Answer 27

Dravidians

Question 28

When the ________and ________ interacted with each other, it resulted in a ______ ___________

Answer 28

Aryans and Dravidians, new culture

Question 29

The Aryans gave up their _______ for ________

Answer 29

nomadic life style, farming

Question 30

_______ was introduced from ______________ and played a role in this change.

Answer 30

Iron, Southwest Asia

Question 31

Farmers were able to clear the dense jungle growth along the Ganges River but using __________ and ________________

Answer 31

Iron and ?

Question 32

In the north, ______, _________ and _________ were grown, while in the south __________, and ________ were supplemented by _______ and__________. Along the river valleys _______ was most common

Answer 32

wheat, barley, and millet
grain, vegetables
rice

Question 33

Aryans had no ____________

Answer 33

Written languages

Question 34

around _________ BC, Aryans started to write in __________ and ___________ language. They used this writing to record __________ and _____________

Answer 34

1000, sanskrit, Indo-European , the legends and religious rituals

Question 35

The ________ are early writing that date between _______ and _____ and reveal that India was a world of

Answer 35

Vedas, 1500 BC and 400 BC many small kingdoms

Question 36

In the 4th century BC a leader established a ___________

Answer 36

large Indian state

Question 37

_________ was the most basic unit of ancient Indian society, and the ideal was for ________ generations to live under the same roof

Answer 37

family, three

Question 38

The family was ___________because the __________ held ______ over the entire family unit

Answer 38

basically patriarchal, oldest male, legal authority

Question 39

male superiority was evident in the following 5 ways:

Answer 39

1. only males could inherit property, except in cases were there were no sons 2. woman could not serve as priests, 3. Generally only males were educated
2. Men were taught by teacher and guru 5) husbands can divorce wife if she cant have children

Question 40

__________ were an important product of marriage because they were expected to ________________

Answer 40

children, take care of their parents as they grew older

Question 41

___________ commonly arranged marriage for their ________ and supplied her with a ________

Answer 41

Parents, young girls, dowry

Question 42

__________ is the most vivid symbol of men’s dominance. It was a _______ in which the ________ was required to ___________ on her dead husband’s funeral pyre

Answer 42

Suttee, ritual, wife , throw herself

Question 43

modern India has about _________languages and _______dialects.

Answer 43

110, 1000

Question 44

———, otherwise known as ——–, carved out small ——–

Answer 44

Rajas, princes, states