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| 7338054343 | What conclusions can be drawn from evidence at Atanja and Ellora in central India of several different and competing religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all being in close proximity to each other? | Dramatic evidence of intensity of the religious feement shaoed all aspects of Indian life as a result of the challenges to the exhisting brahmical. They mirrored the adoption of rituals, objects of worship, basic beleifs by thhe adherence of different Indian religions in this era. | 0 | |
| 7338054344 | What nomadic group moved into India following the fall of the river valley civilization at Harappa? | Aryan invaders | 1 | |
| 7338054345 | Give an example of a restriction that helped strengthen social classes in India. | Vedic priests, or Brahmins, emerged as the dominant force in Indian society and culture. As Brahmin power increased, forces were building Indian society that threatened the course of civilization developed in South Asia. | 2 | |
| 7338054346 | What famous religious figure challenged older Indian religions beliefs? | Buddha | 3 | |
| 7338054347 | What two dynasties/empires are formed during this period of Indian history? | The Mauryas and Gupta | 4 | |
| 7338054348 | What 2 major world religions is India best known for? | Hinduism and Buddhism | 5 | |
| 7338054349 | Difference #1 between India and China... | India: religion and China:Politics | 6 | |
| 7338054350 | Difference #2 between China and India... | India:social structures supporting Hinduism China:social structures supporting Confucianism | 7 | |
| 7338054351 | Difference #3 between India and China... | India:less cohesive political culture than China. China: larger cohesive political culture than India | 8 | |
| 7338054352 | Similarity #1 between India and China... | Most people were peasant farmers | 9 | |
| 7338054353 | Similarity #2 between India and China... | Peasant families clustered together for aid and protection | 10 | |
| 7338054354 | Similarity #3 between India and China... | Patriarchy | 11 | |
| 7338054355 | Similarity #4 between India and China... | Built great cities and engaged in extensive trade | 12 | |
| 7338054356 | What was China able to avoid influences from the Middle East and the Mediterranean region when India was not? | China was more isolated | 13 | |
| 7338054357 | What famous conqueror invaded India from the Mediterranean work and what culture did he spread? | Alexander the Great; Hellenistic culture | 14 | |
| 7338054358 | What problem(s) does India's diverse separate regions and topography cause for India's unity? | India was marked by great diversity that China's Middle Kingdom; racial and language differences | 15 | |
| 7338054359 | How does this compare/contrast with China? | Was marked by greater diversity than China's Middle Kingdom | 16 | |
| 7338054360 | Discuss "monsoons" and identify their positive and negative benefits to Indian agriculture. | Positives: crucial for farming, produce abundance, could plant and harvest two cracks and support a sizable population Negatives: sometimes bring too little rain or too late, famine, drought, bring catastrophic floods, starvation | 17 | |
| 7338054361 | Where are Aryans from and what is another name for them? | Also called Indo European; from Central Asia | 18 | |
| 7338054362 | Why were Aryans more productive farmers that original inhabitants of northern India? (Especially when Aryans were originally nomadic herders) | Aryans used iron tools to clear away he dense vegetation; hunting and herding. | 19 | |
| 7338054363 | Who originally developed the Vedas? | Aryans | 20 | |
| 7338054364 | In what language were the Veda eventually recorded? | Sanskrit | 21 | |
| 7338054365 | What was the basic topic of the Vedas? | Literary epics, poems, hyms | 22 | |
| 7338054366 | The Aryans also developed and imposed social classes, or Varanas, on India's population. What was this social system called? | The Kshatriyas | 23 | |
| 7338054367 | What are the five basic varanas (social classes) ? | 1) Brahmins 2) Kshatriya 3) vaisya 4) Sudra 5) untouchables | 24 | |
| 7338054368 | Who were Brahmins? | Priestly class teachers | 25 | |
| 7338054369 | What are Kshatriya? | Red/courage/warriors/ rulers | 26 | |
| 7338054370 | What are Vaisya? | Yellow wealth farmers, merchants, artisans | 27 | |
| 7338054371 | What are Sudra? | Black/ignorance/labor | 28 | |
| 7338054372 | What are untouchables? | Outside the varna system, no color and not associated with Pursha; pollutes labor | 29 | |
| 7338054373 | What determines which caste you belonged to? | Hereditary with distinctive occupations and each tied to its social system | 30 | |
| 7338054374 | Was it possible to move between castes? Why or why not? | No, marriage between castes was forbidden and punishable by death | 31 | |
| 7338054375 | We're the Aryans monotheistic and polytheistic? | Polytheistic | 32 | |
| 7338054376 | Why do Greeks, the Scandinavians and the Aryans have such similar gods? | They were derived from a common Indo-European oral heritage | 33 | |
| 7338054377 | The religions beliefs of the Aryans developed into what dominate religion in India to this day? | A vigorous, complex religion:Hinduism and Buddhism | 34 | |
| 7338481874 | What famous southeastern European invaded India in 327 BCE and what state did he establish there? | Alexander the Great; state called Bactria | 35 | |
| 7338481875 | What Indian dynasty was founded following the invasion mentioned above? | Mauryan Dynaty | 36 | |
| 7338481876 | Ashoka and Kanishaka's impact on the Buddhist faith... | Ashoka: sent Buddhist missionaries to the Hellenistic Kingdoms in the Middle East and Sri Lanka to the south; used human behavior; improved trade and communication which encouraged growing commerce. Kanishaka: hurt the religion's popularity in India by associating it with foreign rule, collapse of Kushan state added another 100 years of political instability | 37 | |
| 7338481877 | What follows there end of both the Mauryan and Gupta empires in India and what similarity exists in the origins of these events? | Classical India alternates between widespread empires and network of smaller kingdoms. Both economic and cultural life advance in the periods under Mauryas and Guptas. | 38 | |
| 7338481878 | Methods of political control used by the Gupta's... | Claimed they had been appointed by the gods to rule, created a demanding taxation system, allowed local rulers to maintain regional control as long as they deferred to Gupta dominance, stationed a personal representative at each rulers court to ensure loyalty. | 39 | |
| 7338481879 | What was the impact of so many differing regional languages on any Indian political structure? | Guptas' imposed no single language and promotes Sanskrit, which was the language of the educated people. It made no dent in the sieve rusty of popular, regional languages | 40 | |
| 7338481880 | What was the most important and effective system that organized and governed the people of India's daily lives? | Uniform las codes (caste system) | 41 | |
| 7338481881 | How did merchants in India enjoy a rested social stays than merchants in China? | They had the opportunity to get an upward mobility in the cards by their own greater wealth through success in economic activities appropriate to the caste | 42 | |
| 7338481882 | What 2 major world religions developed in India? | Hinduism and Buddhism | 43 | |
| 7338481883 | Which of those two dominates India today? | Hinduism | 44 | |
| 7338481884 | Relationship of Hinduism and Buddhism to other religions... | Produced a civilization that would retain fleas continuity and cultural cohesiveness | 45 | |
| 7338481885 | How is Hinduism different from all other world religions? | No single founder; no central figure | 46 | |
| 7338481886 | What for Hindus refer to their own religion as? | Dharma | 47 | |
| 7338481887 | Define "guru" | The mystics | 48 | |
| 7338481888 | Define "reincarnation" | souls do not die when bodies do but pass into other beings either human or animal | 49 | |
| 7338481889 | Dharma's basic obligations... | Serving the family; producing livelihood; earning money; serving in the army when the need arises | 50 | |
| 7338481890 | How does Hinduism provide hope to people in the lowest caste? | If they behaved well, they might be rewarded by communion with the divine soul | 51 | |
| 7338481891 | Why are priests not very important to buddhists? | Buddhist denied the spiritual value not only of cards and the performance of rituals, but of priests too | 52 | |
| 7338481892 | Define Kamasutra: | Manual of "the laws of love"; discusses relationship between men and women | 53 | |
| 7338481893 | Identify classical Indian achievements in science... | Length of solar year; improved math measurements; circumference of the earth, believed it was around; daily rotation around earth; predicted and explained eclipses; theory of gravity; identified 7 planets | 54 | |
| 7338481894 | Why do wee refer to our numbering system in the West as the "Arabic" system if it was created in India? | Europeans imported it second hand from the Arabs | 55 | |
| 7338481895 | Classical Indian achievements... | Calculated square roots, computed value of pi more accuracy than Greeks, concept of negative numbers | 56 | |
| 7338481896 | How did castes impact economic life? | Assigned people to occupation and regulated marriages | 57 | |
| 7338481897 | How did castes impact social life? | Low caste individuals has few legal rights and were abused by masters | 58 | |
| 7338481898 | How were Indian families sim to Chinese families? | Dominance of husbands and fathers; limited women rights; arranged marriage | 59 | |
| 7338481899 | Propose behind marriages... | To ensure economic links with child brides contributinv dowries of land and domestic animals to the ultimate family estates | 60 | |
| 7338481900 | How was the patriarchal family different in India than in China? | Indian culture featured clever and strong willed women and goddesses and contributes to women's status as wives and mothers | 61 | |
| 7338481901 | What key technology were the Indians best at? | Chemistry; iron making | 62 | |
| 7338481902 | What material was first manufactures in India that became a key staple of the American South? | Cotton cloth; calico; cashmere | 63 | |
| 7338481903 | What did Tamil traders get from the Middle East and Roman Empire? | Pottery, wine, metals, some slaves, gold | 64 | |
| 7338481904 | What body of water was key to Indian trade? | The Indian Ocean | 65 | |
| 7338481905 | Who used the Indian Ocean? | Indian merchants and missionaries | 66 | |
| 7338481906 | What other Jody if water was a key trading linkage during this period? | The Mediterranean Sea | 67 | |
| 7338481907 | How did India influence China? | Through Buddhism and Art | 68 | |
| 7338481908 | What connection lies between Buddhism and Christianity? | Moral Rights | 69 | |
| 7338481909 | How were European of. E medieval period more like classical Indians than modern European Ms and other Westerners? | Beliefs in human equality or equality of opportunity | 70 | |
| 7338481910 | How were China and India different? | Chinese: art and poetry were restraint, opted for separate religions and philosophical systems, political structures and values were little echo in India, greater stress on purely practical findings. India: more dynamic sensual styles, settled on primary religion, carat system involves social rigidity greater than China's, ventured into math | 71 | |
| 7338481911 | How were China and India similar? | Interests in pragmatic discoveries; held on larger peasant class, organized in close unit villages with much mutual cooperation; political power primary with those who controlled land; power of husbands and fathers in family patriarchy | 72 | |
| 7338481912 | Most common product shipped form any port in India... | Gold | 73 | |
| 7338481913 | First product listed from islands of Southeast Asia... | Silk | 74 | |
| 7338481914 | Map divided into 3 zones for trading routes... | Arab zone, Indian zone, Chinese zone | 75 |
