Ancient India Review

Scholars believed that Indus Valley people used granaries to

• Store grain

• store water

• Store surplus crops

• Store surplus rice

Which of the following was the lowest varna, or caste grouping, identified in the Vedas?

• Sudras

• Dalits

• Brahman

• Brahmin

The law of ___________ determines how a person will be reincarnated.

• Moksha

• Ahimsa

• Karma

Which of the following factors helped Hinduism spread throughout India and Southeast Asia?

• Hinduism is flexible enough to accept new gods

• Hinduism already has new gods

• Because of Hinduism’s new pyramids

According to the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, what must be overcome to end suffering?

• The eightfold path

• Moksha

• All selfish desires

True or false: what scholars have learned for certain about the Indus Valley civilization is that its cities were well planned.

• True

• false

Which of the following was the highest social group of the Aryan caste system?

• Dalits

• Sudras

• Priests

• Brahman

Most historians think that Indo-Aryan culture spread through India by____________.

• Grain

• Gradual mixing

• Kings

• Priests

Hindus believe in a supreme god called _________.

• Brahman

• Brahmin

• Kshatriyas

• Sudras

In what order did Buddhism spread from country to country throughout Southeast Asia

• China, India, Japan

• India, Japan, China

• China, Japan, India

• India, China, Japan