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1
Q

Russia makes up ____.

A

Northern Asia

Europe

2
Q

The ____ and the Ganges rivers supply the largest portion of India.

A

Indus

3
Q

Which of these is NOT true of Ashoka?

A

Founded Buddhism

4
Q

Japan and ____ are island nations.

A

Taiwan

5
Q

The religious writings called the ______ tell us much about the Vedic Civilization.

A

Vedas

6
Q

The Baikals form the southern boundary of the ____.

A

Central Siberian Plateau

7
Q

The first communities in ____ existed along the Huang He.

A

China

8
Q

archipelago

A

a chain of islands

9
Q

monsoon

A

a seasonal wind that brings vast amounts of rainfall

10
Q

mantra

A

a word or phrase repeated to aid meditation

11
Q

varna

A

a group based on spiritual qualifications

12
Q

buddhism

A

founded in 5th century BC by Siddhartha Gautama

13
Q

hinduism

A

considered the world’s oldest practiced religion

14
Q

What term means “Yellow Emperor”?

A

Huang-Ti

15
Q

Select the statements that are true.

A

Animals and servants were buried with rulers of ancient China.
The Shang writing system used characters similar to those of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Chinese were protected from invasion by the geography of their land.

16
Q

The ____ separate(s) European Russia from Asian Russia.

A

Ural Mountains

17
Q

A queen serving as general showed the enlightened view of ____ in the Zhou Dynasty.

A

women

18
Q

The first empire of India was the ____.

A

Mauryan Empire

19
Q

Hinduism has its beginnings in the _____ writings.

A

Vedic

20
Q

Choose the correct order of the dynasties.

A

Xia, Shang, Zhou

21
Q

This civilization had sewers and public buildings.

A

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

22
Q

The people of the Shang Dynasty worshipped ____.

A

ancestors

23
Q

The world’s largest land mass is ____.

A

Eurasia

24
Q

The Himalayas keep _____ from moving out of India to the north.

A

monsoons

25
Q

The ____ government was called the Fengjian.

A

Zhou

26
Q

karma

A

a force that is shaped by the sum total of a person’s actions

27
Q

moksha

A

the state of being united with Brahman

28
Q

Barman

A

the “world soul” and the source of the material universe

29
Q

nirvana

A

the state of happiness and enlightenment in Buddhism

30
Q

The ____ Civilization formed on the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

A

Vedic

31
Q

The earliest known settlement on the Indian subcontinent is ____.

A

Mehrgarh

32
Q

Shang ____ were written on silk, bamboo, bronze, stone, and bones.

A

pictographs

33
Q

The ratio found in Indus bricks shows that the civilization had an understanding of ____.

A

mathematics