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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Harappans may have been the first people to raise cotton for use in clothes as is suggested by the recovery of | cotton seeds and small patches of cloth and fishing line at mohenjo- daro |
| Archeological remains of harappan culture were first identified | East India Railway |
| The Bhagavad Gita is the sixth book of the________ and it has been called the "Indian gospel" | Mahabharata |
| The development of jewelry was a critical step in societal development as it indicated the existence of | Abstract symbolic thinking |
| The discovery of obsidian at a prehistoric site probably indicates | the existence of trade networks, providing material mined as far as 200 miles away |
| The idea of Karma, as encapsulated in the later Kama Sutra, included the___________ a wide variety of sexual pleasures by men and women. | enjoyment of |
| The oldest fossilized bones of early humans have been found in | china and siberia |
| Every evolutionary step had to build successively on every preceding one so that_________ fully envolved modern humans could emerge in Africa about 100,000 years ago. | anatomically and intellectually |
| The discovery and analysis of ______ suggests the reasons for the abandonment of the northern European and Russian plains for 15,000 years. | Human bones remnants which show signs of malnutrition and disease as a result of the Ice Ages onset. |
| A recent analysis of fiveHomo erectus remains found in a cave in Georgia in 2005 suggests that this line of humans | was perhaps of non- African origin |
| The signs of a decline in the major cities of harppa include: | inferior quality over earlier building |
| The term formalism is used to describe: | belief that pure and proper rituals were effective |
| By 600 BCE a male house holder of the upper class was expected to | see that all people present were fed before he and his wife ate |
| The Indo- Europeans migrated into northern India during the period | 1500--- 1200 BCE |
| The Vedas were composed | Between 1,400 and 800 BCE |
| The land area occupied by the Harappans | largest area of the third millennium BCE |
| The original term Jati or Caste means | to be born into |
| An important pattern in the history of both northern India and mesopotamia | regular migration and invasion |
| The _________ called "ghee" occupied a prominent place in the aryans religious symbolism | Clarified butter |
| A category of exclude castes the so called untouchables was added comprising people ________. | occupation were ritually unclear |
| Archeological and anthropological analysis of the Harappan economy indicates all the following except: | They seem never to have domesticated and bred dogs |
| Religious symbols found in Harappan archeological evidence indicate: | That they may have believed in a life after death |
| The earliest Aryan migrants may have introduced the ____ to northern India which became useful for drawing wagons and in battle chariots. | Horse |
| The Rig-Veda is currently believed to have been composed between about ______ and ________. | 1400 --- 900 BCE |
| Some of the worlds highest annual rainfall totals over 100 inches are regularly recorded in: | The mountains, extending from Bangladesh through Assam |
| Indra was a swash buckling warrior with a taste for _____ an intoxicating drink used in religious ritual. | Soma |
| The code of manu advises that regarding this as the highest dharma of all four classes husbands..... | must strive to protect their wives |
| After the disappearance of Harappan cities the reurbanization of northern India was in large parts supported by: | the cultivation of rice |
| Sir John Marshall considered it an "all important matter" to compare the art of Indus Valley with that of the ______. | Greeks |
| The practices of certain schools of yoga, meaning _______, were based on the belief that mastery of the body allowed one to escape the restrictions of the material world. | discipline |
| All of the following are true of the practice, understanding or goals of yoga except that: | through intense practice and discipline, one can move the body to a state of unchanging grace |
| The following are indications that Harappan society included merchants and/ or traders except: | A large number of items that seem to have been Imported from Egypt |
| One of the most important concepts in the vedas was that of dharma, which refers to: | Diligently fulling required duties in accordance with ones place in society |
| By about 600 BCE the largest northern Indian states particularly Magadha and kosala | developed ideologies of kingship based on a common religious understanding |
| The Mahabharata | Provides guidance to those struggling with conflicting civil, social, and religious duties |
| All of the following are characteristic of the monsoon winds of the south Asian subcontinent except: | The heaviest rainfall generally occurs in the north and in the plain sind, leaving much of the south comparatively arid year round. |
| Harappa and Mohenjo- Daro the two major cities of Harappan culture: | Are laid out according to a meticulously planned grid |
| All of the following statements about the Bhagavad Gita are true Except: | The god Krishna leads the warrior Arjuna to the realization that the human duty to support and protect ones family outweighs all other considerations. |
| The Vedas | Were written down after 600 BCE but grew from an oral tradition composed between about 1400 and 900 BCE |
| The term Hinduism: | Was derived from the Persian word hindu, taken from the snskrit word sindhu or rivers |
| Which of the following might represent evidence that the Aryan were agents of technological transmission? | Their introduction of chariots to the Xia and Shang societies of china |
| All of these statements about the Rig-Veda are true Expect: | It maintains that the Aryans descended from a matriarchal society somewhere near the Black Sea |
| The cultural artifacts of early humans include all but | Irrigation canals |
| Hominins were forerunners of humans after 7 million years ago. | Chimpanzees |
| Australopiths were prehumen species that existed before those classes under the ___ Homo. | Genus |
| _______became a key evolutionary advantage to hominins since walking on two feet freed the arms to do something else. | Bipedalism |
| Walking on two feet, humans were able to venture out of the African______ i.e. broken forests with interspersed bush and grassland. | Savanna |
| All of the following tool styles or culture were named for locations in modern France Except: | Oldowan |
| The oldest specimen of H. Sapiens discovered so far is a fossil discovered in Ethiopia in 1967 and dated to________. | 195,000 years |
| Levallois is a stone technique where workers first shaped a hard rock into a ________. | cylinder or cone |
| A dozen or so dispersed families of H. sapiens would come together around a campfire, forming a clan, _________. | Among which sexual partners were chosen |
| As hunters, the Neanderthals were not well adapted to ________? | open grasslands and stepps |
| A rock formation inside a cave discovered in Bostwana in 2006, was carved and shaped into head of a _________ some 77,000 years ago. | python |
| The vast land mass of _____ began moving about 100 million years ago. | New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania |
| The most esteemed elders among the Australian Aboriginals Possessed a deep knowledge of the tribes past in the ______. | Dreamtime |
| In Australian Aboriginal culture, the Shaman did all of the following except: | Forbade other members of the clan to cast spells |
| A set pf 15,000 year old engravings on the floor of the La Marche cave shows realistic sketches of _________. | old and young men and women |
| Tundra is a landscape in which the top soil unfreezes during the summer and supports__________. | The growth of small shrubs, mosses and lichens |
| Scholars believe the migration of Homo Sapiens into central and western Europe occurred along the ______ around 35,000 years ago. | Danube River valley |
| Migration to the Americas | Did not result in a uniform native American population until after about 8,00 9,00 years BCE |
| Kennewick men | seems to have shared many characteristics with the Ainu of Japan |
| Another result of the Ice Age were | An enhanced ability to migrate because areas formerly separated by seas became accessible over ice |
| the ice age in the Americas | Probably prevented southward migration over land until a pathway was cleared across the area of modern Alberta |
| Adaptations seem to have included all Except: | Better nutrition and health because of the improved hunting techniques |
| All of the following were results of the last ice age Except | The increase in the size of African rain forests encouraged a temporary return to vegetarianism |
| Forager Societies | Are also known as hunting and gathering societies |
| Homo Floresismis or hobbits | had brains no larger than chimpanzees |
| Homo Erectus | were fully stable on their feet, lived on the ground, could travel rather easily, and had mastered the use of fire |
| The most important physical ability in the transition from hominin to human was? | Bipedalism, which allowed them to function effectively in both forest and savanna |
| Historians who insist on a rigid separation between "prehistory" and "history" may be forgetting that: | Orangutans |
| Ashoka, the grandson of _____, emerged as perhaps India's most dominant ruler until the nineteenth century C.E. | Chandragupta |
| The most famous ruler of Hellenistic Bactria, ________, achieved immortality in Buddhist literature as "King Milinda" by engaging in the debate with and supposedly being converted by the philosopher Nagasena. | Menander |
| Hewn from a single, solid rock, the kailasantha ______, part of an elaborate complex in east central India, is considered the worlds most monumental sculpture. | temple |
| Among the most consistent Hindu beliefs was the idea that the subcontinent was a land united by faith, _________, a name used to describe India ever since. | Bharat |
| Of the many gods singled out for special attention, one of the most significant was ________, the powerful, fertile giver and " Destroyer" of life, the "Lord of the Dance" of the universe. | Shiva |
| Under the influence of Ashoka, __________ Buddhism became the approved sect, with the first complete surviving texts of " the teachings of the elders surviving from this time. | Theravada |
| Buddhism had enhanced trade ties with the Romans, the Sasanids, and the remanant states of Han China by the _______. | Fourth Century CE |
| By the Gupta period, the idea of ritual pollution resulting from unsanctional contact with ________ becomes increasingly common | Lower castes |
| In the first of the four "stages of life", boys of "twice-born" upper castes were to be taken into the household of a ________, or teacher, for a minimum of 12 years. | Guru |
| In the early first millennium BCE, the emerging states along the Ganges River valley developed political systems ranging from _____, often termed republics by scholars to centralized monarchies. | Gana - Sanghas |
| ________ is considered to be perhaps India's most dominat ruler until the nineteenth century CE. | Ashoka |
| Departing somewhat from the Bhagavad Gita's concept of dharma as duty, dharma for Ashoka was simply _______. | that which is good |
| The continual arrival of new people from central Asia expanded the cultural resources of northern India and greatly aided the spread of Buddhism, but it also: | hindered the development of stable states |
| The ________ era is considered to be the classical age of Indian culture and religion. | Gupta |
| These Indian visionaries sought not only to understand the unity of the universe, but also to attain this unity by merging their personal selves, or ____, into the universal self or _______, and thereby archieve salvation. | Atman brahman |
| Jain doctrine teaches followers that the only thing standing between their jiva and freedom from material bondage is something called __________. | karma |
| Which of the following is not one of Guatama's four noble Truths? | to stop suffering one must do penance for sins |
| Which is not a characteristic belief of Buddhist doctrine | correct ritual |
| achieving an uncluttered state of calm non attached nothingness or __________ in the final stages of enlightenment. | Nirvana |
| _________ is the acting in an unselfish manner for the good of others. | Altruism |
| largest branch of buddhism, _______ the greater vehicle. | Mahayana |
| Perhaps the most distinctive marker of Hinduism as a religious civilization is the ______ system. | Jati |
| In 221 BCE, the Qin Ruler ______ proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of the Qin. | Cheng |
| Confucius presented his teachings in the Lunyu or " __________" as " what you would not want for yourself, do not do to others". | reciprocity |
| The ________ was according to Confucius , the " superior man" or gentleman" who behaves in accordance with them highest ethical and moral standards. | Junzi |
| According to Mencius, a ruler who abused or neglected his subjects upset the social order and ________. | The natural tendency of people toward good |
| Since ______ like Han Fei and Li Si believed that compliance on small matters led to compliance on larger ones they imposed harsh punishments for even the tiniest infractions, | legalists |
| The ___________proved so effective that by the fifth century CE the armies of all the Chinese states had adopted and refined the technology paving the way for the sui reunification in 589. | stirrup |
| _________ ( 145-86 BCE) offended the powerful emperor wudi in his histories by exonerating a general whom the emperor and the court had accused of cowardice | sima qian |
| In 1398 one of the last great invasions of central Asian nomads under the leadership of _______, descended on northern India and southwest Asia. | Timur |
| At the height of the _______ dynasty, Buddhist influence at the imperial court made China a Buddhist empire. | Tang |
| Neo- Confucianism was he name given to the new synthesis of official beliefs blending the ideas of: | Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism |
| Tang efforts to control military outposts along the silk road brought the empire into conflict with ________ by the early eighth century. | Arab expansion |
| 1280 Khubilai Khan proclaimed the ______ dynasty | Yuan |
| The ______ was a select group of senior officials who served as an advisory board to the ming emperor on all imperial matters. | grand secretariat |
| Many of these technical advances revolved around the development of luxury items and the most notable among them was the invention of the true _______. | porcelain |
| While china boasted some of the worlds largest cities more then 85% of the country remained rural from the period from the song to the ming with the _______ at the top of the local structure of power. | scholar-gentry |
| _________ missionaries converted the Nubians to Christianity. | Egyptian |
| During the period ________ nubia was a Christian kingdom along the middle nile in the sahara and sub sahara steppe. | 600-1250 |
| power remained largely decentralized after the unification of the three Nubian kingdoms with dozen vassal rulers a appointed official called a ________. | eparch |
| Unlike ______ where kings appointed church officails the Coptic patriarchs appointed the bishops and these would remain independent from kings, | catholic Europe |
| Nubian churches were outposts of the ____________. | Coptic church |
| Interaction with the ________ allowed nubia to adapt itself to the Christian institutions of sacred kingship. | roman empire |
| Under a king ruling by divine right Ethiopia was a confederation of | provincial lords |
| in 1270 a new dynasty of kings the _______ emerged some 300 miles south of aksum | solomonids |
| Aksum were not only descentdants of queen sheba and Israelite king but also the heirs to the israelite | ark of the covenant |
| during the period 600 1450 the Swahili people emerged as an indigenous African population of | musliums |
| a profitable enterprise in the Islamic empire | slave trade |
| the kingdom of ________ and great Zimbabwe represent the high points of southern African kingship | mapunguwe |
| The city of Cahokia was a ceremonial center for the Mississippi cultures of north America and it was located near modern _______. | st. louis |
| Maya kingdoms reached astounding rural desities of about _______ persons per square mile. | 1000 |
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