Practice Test

Question 1

Russia makes up ____.

Answer 1

Northern Asia

Europe

Question 2

The ____ and the Ganges rivers supply the largest portion of India.

Answer 2

Indus

Question 3

Which of these is NOT true of Ashoka?

Answer 3

Founded Buddhism

Question 4

Japan and ____ are island nations.

Answer 4

Taiwan

Question 5

The religious writings called the ______ tell us much about the Vedic Civilization.

Answer 5

Vedas

Question 6

The Baikals form the southern boundary of the ____.

Answer 6

Central Siberian Plateau

Question 7

The first communities in ____ existed along the Huang He.

Answer 7

China

Question 8

archipelago

Answer 8

a chain of islands

Question 9

monsoon

Answer 9

a seasonal wind that brings vast amounts of rainfall

Question 10

mantra

Answer 10

a word or phrase repeated to aid meditation

Question 11

varna

Answer 11

a group based on spiritual qualifications

Question 12

buddhism

Answer 12

founded in 5th century BC by Siddhartha Gautama

Question 13

hinduism

Answer 13

considered the world’s oldest practiced religion

Question 14

What term means “Yellow Emperor”?

Answer 14

Huang-Ti

Question 15

Select the statements that are true.

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

The ____ separate(s) European Russia from Asian Russia.

Answer 16

Ural Mountains

Question 17

A queen serving as general showed the enlightened view of ____ in the Zhou Dynasty.

Answer 17

women

Question 18

The first empire of India was the ____.

Answer 18

Mauryan Empire

Question 19

Hinduism has its beginnings in the _____ writings.

Answer 19

Vedic

Question 20

Choose the correct order of the dynasties.

Answer 20

Xia, Shang, Zhou

Question 21

This civilization had sewers and public buildings.

Answer 21

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

Question 22

The people of the Shang Dynasty worshipped ____.

Answer 22

ancestors

Question 23

The world’s largest land mass is ____.

Answer 23

Eurasia

Question 24

The Himalayas keep _____ from moving out of India to the north.

Answer 24

monsoons

Question 25

The ____ government was called the Fengjian.

Answer 25

Zhou

Question 26

karma

Answer 26

a force that is shaped by the sum total of a person’s actions

Question 27

moksha

Answer 27

the state of being united with Brahman

Question 28

Barman

Answer 28

the “world soul” and the source of the material universe

Question 29

nirvana

Answer 29

the state of happiness and enlightenment in Buddhism

Question 30

The ____ Civilization formed on the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Answer 30

Vedic

Question 31

The earliest known settlement on the Indian subcontinent is ____.

Answer 31

Mehrgarh

Question 32

Shang ____ were written on silk, bamboo, bronze, stone, and bones.

Answer 32

pictographs

Question 33

The ratio found in Indus bricks shows that the civilization had an understanding of ____.

Answer 33

mathematics