SOL Review #3: Classical India/China + Hinduism/Buddhism/Phils.

Which group of people migrated into the Indian subcontinent, impacting Indus River cities? They also brought their religious beliefs which helped create Hinduism and they influenced the caste system:

• Dravidians
• Guptas
• Mauryans
• Aryans

What type of religion is Hinduism?

• Monotheistic
• Nontheistic

• Polytheistic
• It is not a religion

Who is the founder of Buddhism?

• Chandragupta
• Siddhartha Gautama

• Abraham

• Ashoka/Asoka

According to Buddhism, suffering is a product of what?

• Living a life of moderation

• Death
• Desire or material wants

• Sickness

If a person gave up desires and followed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, they would reach:

• Dharma
• Karma
• Moksha
• Nirvana (enlightenment)

Which emperor adopted Buddhism as his personal faith despite ruling a Hindu-majority empire, the Mauryan Empire?

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Siddhartha Guatama
• Ashoka/Asoka

• Chandra Gupta I

The Gupta Empire is known as the ____ in Classical Indian history.

• Egalitarian Age

• Peaceful Age
• Golden Age
• Bronze Age

Which of the following is NOT an innovation during the Gupta Empire?

• The Pythagorean theorem dealing with triangles

• The mathematical concept of 0
  
• Medical advances (ex: setting bones)

• Astronomy (i.e. concept of round earth)

What Chinese philosophy advocated following the way of balance, harmony and nature?

• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Daoism (Taoism)

• Legalism

What is the name of the pattern of a new dynasty, prosperity and growth, decline and then fall  followed by a new dynasty called?

• The Cycle of a Revolution

• The dynastic cycle

• Mandate of Confucius
• Coup d'etat