Chapter 5&6 Review Questions

Question 1

Which of the following was a motivating factor factor for people to settle in the Ganges plain?

Answer 1

Fertile, well watered soil

Question 2

The most serious threats to the Vedic religion came from?

Answer 2

Jainism and Buddhism

Question 3

India’s first centralized empire was formed by who?

Answer 3

Chandragupta mauya

Question 4

Ashoka extended the boundaries of his empire and later converted to which religion?

Answer 4

Buddhism

Question 5

As in Mesopotamia, Greece, and China, the role of women in India..

Answer 5

Declined as the social structure became more complex

Question 6

Among the early converts to Buddhism way were..,

Answer 6

Women, as a way to gain more freedom

Question 7

In Southeast Asia, the first political units…

Answer 7

Took parts of Indian culture that were useful to them and synthesized them with indigenous, belief, values, and institution

Question 8

The first major center in Southeast Asia was Funan, in modern day?

Answer 8

Vietnam

Question 9

While the dominant population of Southeast Asia is Malay, culturally it is?

Answer 9

Mainly Indian

Question 10

Most of india’s

Earliest writings are?

Answer 10

Historiography

Question 11

The most essential activity in early Rome was?

Answer 11

Farming

Question 12

In Roman families, the authority figure was the oldest male. This situation is called what?

Answer 12

Paterfamilias

Question 13

Unlike Greeks, the Romans

Answer 13

Granted roman citizenship to conquered people

Question 14

One of the major impacts of the Pax Romana was?

Answer 14

That facilitation of trade

Question 15

One of the most enduring consequences of the Roman Empire was?

Answer 15

Spread Latin language

Question 16

The Romans originally viewed Christians negatively because?

Answer 16

Their monotheism kept them from worshiping Roman Empire

Question 17

As the western Roman Empire collapsed in 500s, Rome

Answer 17

Remained a center for the Christian church

Question 18

By the early Han dynasty, China’s population had

Answer 18

Grown because intensive agriculture practices

Question 19

Like Rome, the Qin and Han

Answer 19

Faced similar problems with defense of empire.
Had to delegate autonomy to local officials.
Built thousands of roads for trade

Question 20

Qin and Han emperors had to alloy themselves with the gentry as one strategy to weaken the rural aristocrats. On China, the gentry were the?

Answer 20

Class of prosperous, educated families, below artistocrats

Question 21

Which of the following is true of the Han empire collapsed?

Answer 21

Nomadic bands raided, official corruption, peasant uprising

Question 22

Which of the following is true of the Rome and Han dynasty?

Answer 22

Rome and Han armies were made up of mercenary solders

Question 23

Indian societies , like many other societies, developed easy to regulate relations between different groups, on of these ways was through?

Answer 23

The Varna system