Practice Test Flashcards
Russia makes up ____.
Northern Asia
Europe
The ____ and the Ganges rivers supply the largest portion of India.
Indus
Which of these is NOT true of Ashoka?
Founded Buddhism
Japan and ____ are island nations.
Taiwan
The religious writings called the ______ tell us much about the Vedic Civilization.
Vedas
The Baikals form the southern boundary of the ____.
Central Siberian Plateau
The first communities in ____ existed along the Huang He.
China
archipelago
a chain of islands
monsoon
a seasonal wind that brings vast amounts of rainfall
mantra
a word or phrase repeated to aid meditation
varna
a group based on spiritual qualifications
buddhism
founded in 5th century BC by Siddhartha Gautama
hinduism
considered the world’s oldest practiced religion
What term means “Yellow Emperor”?
Huang-Ti
Select the statements that are true.
Animals and servants were buried with rulers of ancient China.
The Shang writing system used characters similar to those of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Chinese were protected from invasion by the geography of their land.
The ____ separate(s) European Russia from Asian Russia.
Ural Mountains
A queen serving as general showed the enlightened view of ____ in the Zhou Dynasty.
women
The first empire of India was the ____.
Mauryan Empire
Hinduism has its beginnings in the _____ writings.
Vedic
Choose the correct order of the dynasties.
Xia, Shang, Zhou
This civilization had sewers and public buildings.
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
The people of the Shang Dynasty worshipped ____.
ancestors
The world’s largest land mass is ____.
Eurasia
The Himalayas keep _____ from moving out of India to the north.
monsoons
The ____ government was called the Fengjian.
Zhou
karma
a force that is shaped by the sum total of a person’s actions
moksha
the state of being united with Brahman
Barman
the “world soul” and the source of the material universe
nirvana
the state of happiness and enlightenment in Buddhism
The ____ Civilization formed on the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Vedic
The earliest known settlement on the Indian subcontinent is ____.
Mehrgarh
Shang ____ were written on silk, bamboo, bronze, stone, and bones.
pictographs
The ratio found in Indus bricks shows that the civilization had an understanding of ____.
mathematics
