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Question | Answer |
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Who did the Harappan people trade with on land and sea routes? | Sumerians |
What two great world religions originated in India? | Hinduism and Buddhism |
What river valley is called the cradle of civilization? | The Indus River Valley |
What feature was common of ancient Indian cities? | Advanced drainage systems |
Has Harappan writing been deciphered (figured out)? | No |
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa? | Walled cities in the Inus valley |
Who had the earliest river civilization in India? | Harappans |
What similarity existed between Egyptian civilization and Harappan civilization? | Pictographic (pictures) writing |
Under what leader was India united into a single empire? | Chandragupta Maurya |
Is Buddhism more egalitarian (believed in equality) than Hinduism? | Yes |
Who were the Indo-European invaders? | The Aryans |
Where did the class or caste system of India come from? | An earlier class system among the Aryans |
By introducing the iron plow and irrigation, the Aryans expanded Indian agriculture and moved the center of its culture east to where? | Ganges River Valley |
Who was India's first Buddhist monarch? | Ashoka |
The concept of reincarnation into the next life based upon one's present life is called? | Karma |
Where did the Indian trade from? | The Pacific rim to the Mediterranean Sea |
Where did the earliest Chinese civilization begin? | Along the Huang He |
What was the first Chinese dynasty? | the Shang |
Who was credited with forming the philosophy of Daoism? | Lao Tzu |
Who was the first of the great Mongol conquerors? | Genghis Khan |
When the same family rules a land for generation after generation | Dynasty |
Who was the first seafarer to have used the compass? | Zheng He |
Bronze casting was developed in China as an alternative to what? | The lost wax method |
When did the Zhou Dynasty rule? | During the time of Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Siddhartha Gautama |
According to legend, who smuggled the secret of silk production to Europe over the silk road? | Christian monks |
Why did border guards search merchants and travelers on the Silk Road? | To keep silk production a secret |
Over 600 years separated China's discovery of what from the people in the West? | Iron casting |
Who completed the conquest of the Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty | Kublai Khan |
According to Taoist philosophy, what is the greatest achievement for any person? | To find harmony with the way of nature |
What foreign invaders overthrew the Song Dynasty? | The Mongols |
What were the first weapons that used gunpowder? | Hand grenades |
What was the last of river valley civilization to develop? | Huang He |
When did Buddhism become part of Chinese civilization? | When Buddhists traveled over the Silk Road from India and spread their faith |
What term describes the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture? | Ethnocentrism |
What two dynasties were not Chinese but rather foreign invaders | Yuan and Qing |
Many of the sayings of Confucius were written down by his disciples in what? | The Analects |
What is the English name for Huang He | Yellow River |
Porcelain was an advanced form of Chinese ceramics baked at high heat in what? | Kilns |
The administration of government through departments is called what? | Bureaucracy |
What is the longest man made structure in the world? | The Great Wall |