Early China and India Review

What country used a caste system?

• China
• Rome
• India
• Americas

fixed social class system into which a person is born is called a -

• level
• varna
• caste
• class

How did you move up and down in a caste system?

• bribes
• by getting rich
• Eightfold Path
• reincarnation

Siddartha Guatama founded what religion

• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Judaism

Where did Hinduism and Buddhism originate?

• India
• China
• Europe
• Africa

What is karma

• a system that follows you and determines how you reincarnate
• a system determines whether you can go to temple or not
• a social system
• an economic system

What is reincarnation?

• a social system
• an economic system
• a cycle of death and rebirth until nirvana or moksha is achieved
• a labor system

What is the Eightfold Path

• a plan to achieve nirvana over multiple lifetimes
• a plan to stop being an alcoholic
• a plan to get wealthy
• a plan be happy in life

What are the 4 Noble Truths?

• idea that life is pain and suffering and is caused by man's desires
• idea that one's goal is to go to heaven
• idea that one's goal in life is to indulge yourself
• idea that life is all about moderation

The Mauryans and Guptans were empires on what subcontinent?

• North America
• Russia
• China
• India