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History chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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The area covered by the identified sites of the Indus civilization is larger than | Texas |
In India, the monsoon season is | June to September. |
Indus artisans cast metal ornaments and tools by the | lost wax method, like the ancient Greeks. |
The people of the Indus civilization used | short pictographic inscriptions. |
The most common building material in the Harappa Culture was | baked brick. |
Until the twentieth century, life expectancy in India was about | 30 years. |
A crop first cultivated and exploited in India was | cotton. |
The evidence that suggests the invaders who contributed to the decline of early Indus culture came from colder climates is | fireplaces. |
The early Indus civilization had perished by | 1500 B.C.E. |
The Aryan invaders who conquered the early Indian peoples possessed | superior weaponry. horses. chariots. |
The Aryan invaders who came to India after 1500 B.C.E. were | closely related to Indo-Europeans migrating into west Asia and Europe in the second millennium. |
The Rig Veda was first written down in | Sanskrit after 1000 B.C.E. |
In Aryan society this class had the highest status | brahmans |
In Aryan society, the warrior class was the | kshatriyas. |
Aryan varnas were determined by | none of these choices |
In Aryan society, most religious sacrifices were carried out by | brahmans |
The god Indra is in some respects similar to the Greek god | Zeus |
The predominant activity of Aryan religious practice was | the offering of sacrifices. |
The non-Indo-European, Dravidian languages were spoken chiefly in | south India. |
The oldest Dravidian language is | Tamil |
Which of the following statements is false? | Brahmans from different parts of India can communicate with each other in Prakrit, but not in Sanskrit. |
In the Late Vedic Age, the goal of thinking people was to | seek truth and understand the nature of the brahman, or the essential divine reality of the universe. |
In the late Vedic age, most rulers were from this class. | |
Vedic religious literature is most closely associated with | Hinduism. |
The Upanishads are | essays on religious and philosophical topics. |
Which statement about the Mahabharata is false? | |
Which statement about Late Vedic age society is false? | |
"Outcastes," or "untouchables" | were lower than Sudras. were excluded from the Aryan social order. included in some cases members of professions considered impure. |
Women in the Late Vedic period | often married as children. |
Which of the following statements about asceticism in the Late Vedic age is false? | Asceticism was intended to further the interests of Brahmans. |
The Upanishads | |
Monism is | a metaphysical system in which reality is conceived as a unified whole. |
The two most popular gods in Hinduism from Late Vedic down to modern times have been | Shiva and Vishnu. |
Which of the following statements about the land of China is false? | |
The "Yellow Emperor" was | Huang-ti. |
The First Dynasty (Hsia) in China reigned | 2205-1766 B.C.E. |
Which of the following has not been found at the site of Chengchow (Ao)? | written records |
Royal burials at the Shang capital of Anyang were somewhat similar to those in | Mycenae |
Which statement about Lady Hao, wife of King Wu Ting, is not true? | none of these choices |
The central focus of the Shang period was the | |
Which of these was a development of Shang period science in China? | the decimal system . the ability to predict eclipses . the charting of the movement of heavenly bodies |
In Chinese writing, a logograph is | a combination of pictograph or ideograph with a pronunciation symbol. |
Which of these statements is not true? | The Chou rulers rejected the notion of "the mandate of heaven." |
The Chou political/economic system was | feudal |
A carryover from Shang times into the Chou era was the use of | cowrie shells as currency. |
The early coins of the eastern Chou society were shaped like | miniature spades and knives. |
Which of the following was not characteristic of Chou religion? | widespread human sacrifice |
Which of the following statements about the Chinese world during the Eastern Chou is not true? | After 680 B.C.E. no one ruler was ever recognized as hegemon. |
The shih class consisted of | knights (lower aristocracy). |
Which of these was a feature of agriculture during the Eastern Chou? | systematic irrigation. the use of fertilizer. crop rotation |