- 1. a strong wind that blows one way in winter and another way in summer
A) raja
B) Sanskrit
C) caste
D) Himalayas
E) monsoon
- 2. a social group that one is born into and cannot change
A) monsoon
B) caste
C) Himalayas
D) Sanskrit
E) raja
- 3. the prince or leader of a tribe
A) caste
B) Sanskrit
C) raja
D) Himalayas
E) monsoon
- 4. mountain range that is home to the highest mountains in the world
A) Sanskrit
B) monsoon
C) Himalayas
D) raja
E) caste
- 5. the written language developed in India
A) raja
B) Himalayas
C) Sanskrit
D) caste
E) monsoon
- 6. divine law that requires people to perform the duties of their caste
A) karma
B) dharma
C) reincarnation
D) theocracy
E) nirvana
- 7. the consequences of how a person lives
A) reincarnation
B) dharma
C) karma
D) nirvana
E) theocracy
- 8. a government controlled by religious leaders
A) theocracy
B) dharma
C) karma
D) nirvana
E) reincarnation
- 9. the idea of passing through many lives to be united with Brahman
A) theocracy
B) dharma
C) nirvana
D) karma
E) reincarnation
A) dharma
B) karma
C) theocracy
D) nirvana
E) reincarnation
- 11. Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or mound
A) Kalidasa
B) Asoka
C) pilgrim
D) stupa
E) Chandragupta
- 12. one of India’s best-known ancient writers
A) stupa
B) Kalidasa
C) Chandragupta
D) pilgrim
E) Asoka
- 13. used trade routes to travel to religious shrines or sites
A) Asoka
B) pilgrim
C) stupa
D) Chandragupta
E) Kalidasa
- 14. considered to be the Mauryan dynasty’s greatest king
A) stupa
B) pilgrim
C) Chandragupta
D) Asoka
E) Kalidasa
- 15. founded India’s first empire
A) Kalidasa
B) Asoka
C) pilgrim
D) stupa
E) Chandragupta Maurya
- 16. The ____ River and the ____ River are India’s most important rivers.
A) Ganges, Arabian
B) Ganges, Indus
C) Bengal, Indian
D) Indian, Indus
- 17. About 3000 B.C., the first people to live in the Indus River valley were the
A) Harappans
B) Mohenjo-Daro.
C) Aryans
D) Indians
- 18. What natural disasters possibly caused the collapse of the Harappan civilization?
A) hurricanes and wildfires
B) volcanoes and monsoons
C) disease and famine
D) earthquakes and floods
- 19. Nomadic people, the ____, conquered the Harappans and most of India.
A) Vaisyas
B) Aryans
C) Sudras
D) Brahmans
- 20. In India’s caste system, the Kshatriyas class contains these people.
A) warriors and rulers
B) common people
C) untouchables
D) priests
- 21. ____ is one of the oldest religions in the world and is today’s third largest.
A) Brahmanism
B) Hinduism
C) Buddhism
D) Aryanism
- 22. In Hinduism, the universal spirit, or creator, is called
A) Siva
B) Krishna
C) Brahman
D) Indra
- 23. Buddhism was founded by ____ around 600 B.C.
A) Lakshmi
B) Siddhartha
C) Dalai Lama
D) Sarawati
- 24. The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up
A) your home.
B) wisdom
C) your family.
D) all desires.
- 25. The two groups of Buddhists who spread Buddha’s ideas to Southeast Asia were
A) Myanmar and Thailand.
B) Theravada and Mahayana.
C) Ceylon and Sri Lanka.
D) Cambodia and Laos.
- 26. The Mauryan dynasty set up a ____ government, which was controlled by the capital city.
A) city-state
B) theocratic
C) democratic
D) centralized
- 27. The Mauryan ruler ____ built new roads and hospitals for people and animals.
A) Kalidasa
B) Gupta
C) Chandragupta Maurya
D) Asoka
- 28. Five hundred years after the Mauryan dynasty failed, the ____ dynasty created an empire that reunited much of northern India.
A) Asoka
B) Kalidasa
C) Gupta
D) Hindu
- 29. Two famous epic stories that Indians today still like to read are the Mahabharata and
A) Panchantantra
B) Bhagavad Gita.
C) Theravada
D) Ramayana
- 30. The Indian invention of ____ around A.D. 500 had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science.
A) zero
B) algebra
C) plastic surgery
D) algorithms
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