SSWH1b, 2a China and India

SSWH1b, 2a China and India

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Essential Question

• How is the development of culture similar, yet different?

Multiple Choice

India is located on what continent and near what body of water?

• Asia, Pacific Ocean

• Asia, Indian Ocean

• Africa, Pacific Ocean

• Africa, Indian Ocean

Can you find India on this map?

Multiple Choice

China is located on what continent and near what body of water?

• Asia, Pacific Ocean

• Asia, Indian Ocean

• Africa, Pacific Ocean

• Africa, Indian Ocean

Can you find China on this Map?

Multiple Choice

Egypt developed along the Nile, Sumer developed along the Euphrates and Tigris. Where did the Indus Valley Civilization develop?

• Along the Rhine river

• Along the Ganges and Indus rivers

• Along the Yellow river

• Along the Nile and Blue rivers

Multiple Choice

All of the civilizations that developed along river systems were farming villages.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What natural barrier/geographical feature to the north provided protection from attacks and invasions for the people living in the Indus Valley Civilization?

• Indian Ocean

• Sahara Desert

• Tigris River

• Himalaya Mtn chain

Answer

Multiple Select

Present day India is where the Indus valley civilization developed. What other name(s) are used to Identify this region of the and India?

• South Asia

• Subcontinent of India

Open Ended

Using the SLIDE attached to this question. Describe an example of human environment interaction in the Indus Valley Civilization.

Open Ended

How is the extremely advanced civilization of the Indus Valley similar to your city or neighborhood?

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****Aryans and Khyber Pass

Multiple Choice

Which theme of history does this information go under?

• Social

• Political

• Interaction-Human and Env.

• Culture

• Economic

Multiple Choice

Who was the first to unite the subcontinent of India?

• Pharaoh Jonah

• Ashoka Maurya

• Chandragupta Maurya

Multiple Choice

The Mauryan Empire was ruled by

• an oligarchy

• citizens

• a council

• an hereditary monarch

Open Ended

How was ethnicity used to govern the people of the Mauryan Empire?

Open Ended

What do you find most impressive about Mauryan government and tell why. Use the slide attached to this question!

Open Ended

What do you find most disturbing about Mauryan government and tell why. Use the slide attached to this question!

Open Ended

How did the Mauryan Empire benefit from the roads and maritime connections to Southeast Asia and the Middle East that existed in and around the Mauryan empire?

Open Ended

How did the conversion of Ashoka from Hinduism to Buddhism impact the way Ashoka ruled the Mauryan Empire?

Multiple Select

After Ashoka dies which of the following are reasons for the decline and eventual fall of the Mauryan Empire? (Multi- answer)

• Weak successors

• Empire too large

• foreign invaders

• Internal revolt

Open Ended

The Mauryan dynasty, after it fell, was replaced by the Gupta dynasty. How was Gupta rule similar to Mauryan rule and how was it different?

Multiple Choice

The Mauryan Empire favored Buddhism. What belief system did the Gupta Empire favor?

• Buddhism

• Monotheism

• Hinduism

• Confucianism

Multiple Choice

Followers of Buddhism believed that all people, both men and women are spiritually equal. The Gupta's returning of the Indian subcontinent back to Hinduism strengthened patriarchy and

• monotheism

• caste system

• human sacrifice

• egalitarianism

Open Ended

List three things that made the era of Gupta rule a Golden Age.

Open Ended

List three things that made the era of Gupta rule a Golden Age.

Multiple Select

Egypt had the Nile; Mesopotamia had the Tigris and Euphrates; Indus Valley Civ. had the Ganges and Indus rivers. What is the name of the river system(s) that supported the development of civilization in East Asia (China)?

• Yangtze River

• Huang He River (Yellow River)

• Pacific River

• Indian River

Multiple Choice

Like the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Yangtze river provided fertile soil for growing crops but also caused massive destruction because of flooding.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

How did the Chinese deal with flooding?

• Irrigation

• Damns

• Canals

Open Ended

In your own words, describe the belief system of Daoism and the concept of Yin and Yan.

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