AP World History - Chapter 6

Hindus believed the caste in the next life could be changed by their actions in this life. This belief was known as?

• Karma
• Salvation
• Dharma
• Suffering

Chandragupta Maurya established the ____________________ dynasty after Alexander the Great left India. 

• Mauryan
• Gupta
• Shang
• Bo-dy Brody

After witnessing hardships and meditation for 49 days, Prince Siddhartha became known as the ____________________ traveling the countryside sharing his visions. 

• Moses
• Wise One
• Buddha
• Brahmin

During the ___________________ empire, which came second, science and education grew into what one might call a “golden age”. 

• Sharma
• Gupta
• Mauryan
• Shang

Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters.

• Arid (Dry and hot with little precipitation)

• Semiarid (Hot and mostly dry through the year)

• Continental Climate (Hot summers and Cold winters)

• Monsoon (Wet Season and Dry Season)

Sacred books that recorded Aryan hymns, stories, poems and prayers are called . . .

• Stupas

• Guru

• Buddha

• Vedas

An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries C.E. Centered in the rich rice growing region of southern Vietnam, it controlled the passage of trade across the Malaysian isthmus.

• Funan

• Angkor

• Singosari

• Moenjo-Daro

Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 273?232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing.

• Ashoka

• Chandragupta 2

• Nanda

• Kautilya

The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.

• pilgrim

• Bhagavad Gita

• Ashoka

• Chandra Gupta

India was the home of which empires?

• Tang and Song
• Mauryan and Gupta
• Roman and Byzantine
• Mongol and Russian