Ancient India

The Himalaya Mountains as a geographical land feature, are separated from the rest of Asia. What term is used to describe this geographical land feature?

• Country 
• Archipelago
• Subcontinent
• Island

Mohenjo-Daro means what when written in Sanskrit?

• Giant Mound
• Mountains of India
• Monsters of the Dead
• Mound of the Dead

This the name given to a fortress at the west end of Mohenjo Daro.

• Citadel
• City-State
• Babylon
• Courtyard

What river in India flows from the Northeast in the Himalaya Mountains to the Arabian Sea which is Southwest of the Himalayas?

• Tigris River
• Ganges River
• Indus River
• Euphrates River

The ruins of this ancient city were discovered by archaeologists in 1921?

• Cairo
• Machu-Picchu
• Harappa
• Nubia

Contact was limited between India and the rest of the world as a result of these geographic land features. 

• Subcontinent due to the Himalaya and Hindu Kush Mountains as well as the surrounding bodies of water.
• A peninsula and many rivers. 
• Flat plains and rolling hills.
• The Nile River prevented enemies from attacking.

What two important rivers begin in the Himalaya Mountains?

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Nile and Mississippi
• Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas
• Indus and Ganges

The warm climate in the Indus Valley enabled farmers to do what when it came to agriculture?

• Allowed crops to be grown and harvested twice every year
• b. Limited the types of crops that could be grown to only wheat & beans
• Made it impossible to grow crops
• Caused droughts that lasted many years

What effect did surplus food have on the civilization in the Indus Valley?

• Everyone had to farm for food.
• People were nomadic so they had to travel and hunt for food.
• Not all people had to farm, the rest could have other specialized jobs to make goods.
• No one had to work because there was so much food.

What do archaeologists believe are possible reason Harappans may have abandoned their
cities?

• War, floods and droughts, and earthquakes
• Meteor showers destroyed cropland
• Tsunamis wiped out important coastal fishing and hunting grounds.
• Frequent tornadoes made it impossible to prepare fields for farming.