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History chapter 2

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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
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