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| 7605560634 | What were the three great centers of classical civilization ? | Mediterranean and middle east (Greece, Persia, and Rome) and China. | 0 | |
| 7605587434 | Who dominated Indian society after the takeover of the Aryans? | The Brahmans dominated Indian society, after the Gupta dynasty was committed to Brahmans. | 1 | |
| 7605623473 | How were India and China different? What did they have in common? | China was focused on politics and on social structures that would support the confucian order. India was focused on religion and social structures that would support a Hindu way of life. They both focused on social structures. | 2 | |
| 7605672225 | Why was India more open to outside influences than China? | They were more open to influences from the middle east and the mediterranean world. They brought new artistic styles and political concepts. | 3 | |
| 7605749131 | What part did the Himalayas play in Indian history and culture? | It linked India to other civilizations in the middle east. India was marked greater diversity than China's middle kingdom. Active trading and seafaring economy arose. | 4 | |
| 7605803923 | Why was the unification of the entire Indian subcontinent difficult? | India was marked by greater diversity than China's middle kingdom. India's separate regions explain economic diversity and racial language differences. | 5 | |
| 7605844055 | What major change did the Aryan people make in the formative period? | They had their own impact on the culture and social structure. Aryans used iron tools to clear away the dense vegetation. | 6 | |
| 7606047120 | Why did a strict caste system develop in India? | The age during the vedic and epic ages, as a means of establishing relationships between the Aryan invaders and the indigenous people, Aryans regarded as inferior. | 7 | |
| 7606125542 | Which conqueror had a great influence on India in 327 BCE? | Alexander the great having conquered Greece and much of the middle east, pushed into northwest India, established a border called Bactria. | 8 | |
| 7606146835 | How large was the empire established by Chandragupta Maurya? | It established in Indian subcontinent in 4th century BCE following invasion by Alexander the Great. They developed a substantial bureaucracy. | 9 | |
| 7606165639 | How and how far did Ashoka expand the Mauryan Empire? | He extended Mauryan conquests, gaining control of all but the southern tip of India through fierce fighting. | 10 | |
| 7606179005 | What major change did Ashoka make? How did he expand Buddhism? | He went from fighting fiercely to converting to Buddhism. He propagated Buddhism throughout India, sponsoring shrines for its worshippers. | 11 | |
| 7606194473 | How did Ashoka improve the Indian economy? | He worked to improve trade and communication, sponsoring road networks and rest stops for travelers. | 12 | |
| 7606200606 | Who were Kushans? | Kushans were new invaders pushed into central India from the northwest. | 13 | |
| 7606212821 | What was the Gupta achievement? | It gave classical India its greatest period of political stability. They expanded influence without constant fighting. | 14 | |
| 7606221054 | What became the major theme in Indian political history? | They involved in regionalism, plus considerable diversity in political forms. Autocratic kings and emperors dotted the history of classified India. | 15 | |
| 7606240007 | Which services were provided by the Gupta ? | They managed to create a demanding taxation system, seeking up to a sixth of all agricultural produce. They spread uniform law codes. | 16 | |
| 7606253899 | What explains the limitations of political traditions in India? | India was not very elaborate. There was few institutions or value other than regionalism that carried through from one period to the next. | 17 | |
| 7606263804 | What was the value of the caste system? | It regulated many social relationships and work roles. The religious encouragement in the performance of caste duties did for Indian life was more conventional government structures. | 18 | |
| 7606278410 | How did Hinduism change over time? | It developed gradually over a period of many centuries. Its fluidity, its ability to adapt to the different needs of various groups and to change with circumstance. | 19 | |
| 7619158612 | What important concept was stressed by the Upanishads? What did the Upanishads attack? | They advanced the idea of a mystical contact with a divine essence. "That is the true, that is the self". They attacked the Brahman view of what religion should be. | 20 | |
| 7619188171 | According to Hinduism, what decides the fate of the soul? | A divine force informing the whole universe, of which each individual creatures soul is thought to be part. | 21 | |
| 7619300650 | What are some Hindu paths to salvation? | The meditation and self-discipline of yoga, allows the the mind to concentrate on the divine spirit. There were rituals and rules of the Brahman. Symbolic sacrifices or gifts to the gods might also bring them salvation. | 22 | |
| 7619323905 | What is the perplexed warrior in the Bhagavad Gita told by Krishna? | He is a warrior sent to battle against his own relatives. Fearful of killing them, he is advised by an incarnation of Brahma (Krishna) that he must carry out his duties. | 23 | |
| 7619490579 | Who was Buddha? Which aspects of Hinduism and the Indian society of his day did he reject? | An Indian prince, Siddartha Gautama, lived as a Hindu mystic, fasting and torturing his body. He denied the caste system. | 24 | |
| 7629829921 | According to Buddha, how does one find salvation? Is a priest or organized religion needed? | He saw salvation as arising from the destruction of the self, whose annihilation | 25 |
