World History Summer School Quiz #8

Site of the start of Indian civilization.

• Yellow River

• Tigris and Euphrates River

• Indus River

• Nile River

The continent on which India is located.

• America

• Australia

• Asia

• Africa

A social system where people are permanently divided into levels based on heredity.

• Dharma

• Vedas

• Caste

• Nirvana

The classic language of India.

• Sudras

• Dharma

• Sanskrit

• Vedas

In Buddhism, the higher state of consciousness in which there is neither suffering nor desire.

• Monsoon

• Dharma

• Nirvana

• Vedas

Name of an ancient Indian empire.

• Assyira

• Nok

• Gupta

• Sumer

An ascetic and sage on whose teaching Buddhism was founded and who lived in the eastern part of Ancient India.

• Aryans

• Varna

• Buddha

• Siddahartha

A major tenet of Hinduism which holds that one's soul is eternal and

upon death returns to the physical world in a new body.

• Enlightenment

• Hinduism

• Reincarnation

• Nirvana

The principle religion of India with roots tracing back to prehistoric

times.

• Christainity

• Judaism

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

The most powerful people of the caste system included priests and other leaders.

• Sudras

• Kshatriyas

• Brahmins

• Vasisyas