W.Smith class Chap 17 review session 7th grade

1. Why are some houses in South Asia built on stilts?

• to make theft more difficult for criminals

• to protect against flooding

• to guard against wild animals

• to save construction costs

2. Nomadic herders who settles parts of northern South Asia in the 1500s B.C. were the_______

• Moguls

• Mauryans

• Guptans

• Aryans

3. Why did the death rate rise in South Asia during the late 1800s?

• severe famines

• major wars and other armed conflicts

• flu epidemic

• a drop in the birthrate

4. In 1947 India was divided into which two independent countries?

• India and Pakistan

• India and Nepal

• India and Bangladesh

• India and Bhutan

5. Approximately how many people live in South Asia

• nearly 1.5 billion

• more than 2 billion

• 2.5 billion

• nearly 3.5 billion

6. Why are the Sherpa often hired to guide climbing expeditions or to carry supplies?

• They are a strong ethnic group

• They know the mountains of Pakistan well

• They work for low wages

• They have remarkable endurance in high altitudes

7. Which religion is the most widely practiced in South Asia?

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Sikhism

• Buddhism

8. The Gupta ruler chose the site of Pataliputra as his capital for all of the following reasons EXCEPT _________.

• it was easily defended in its Himalaya location

• most of the population lived near the Ganges Rives

• the ruler could easily control the empire from there

• it was located along a trade route for goods

9. Natural barriers that protected the Gupta Empire's boundaries included ________.

• navigable rivers

• mountains and plateaus

• the Bay of Bengal

• the Arabian Sea

10. During the Gupta Empire, mathematicians developed a system of abstract calculation that they eventually named al-jabr w'al-muqabal-ah. What do we call this system today?

• calculus

• trigonometry

• geometry

• algebra