Chapter 7 India and China Create Empires Practice Questions

What new belief helped Buddhism become popular with the masses?

• Stricter adherence to self-sacrifice would lead to nirvana.
• Many people could become Buddhas
• Buddha was not a god and should not be worshipped
• Buddhists no longer needed images of the Buddha

What inspired Asoka to convert to Buddhism?

• an encounter with a Buddhist monk on the way to battle
• two months of meditation in the wilderness
• sorrow over the slaughter at Kalinga
• his son's Buddhist teacher

What did Asoka's edicts proclaim?

• national adherence to his religion
• five lessons for young men
• Chandragupta Maurya's history
• religious toleration

What scientific concept did Indian astronomers prove long before Europeans did?

• The determined the distance between the Earth and the moon.
• The Earth is round.
• The Sun is the center of the solar system
• Mars had moons.

What did Indian civilization experience during the Gupta Empire?

• upheaval from frequent invasions
• a decline in trade between India and Africa
• advances in literature, art, science and mathematics
• all of the above

Which of the following was invented in India?

• the phonetic alphabet
• the civil service system
• paper
• the mathematical concept of zero

What do the Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva represent?

• creator, preserver and destroyer
• youth, adulthood and old age
• revelation, inspiration and release
• sleep, wakefulness and time

What became a closely guarded secret in China?

• the forging of iron
• paper production
• silk production
• Records of the Grand Historian

What advances in technology developed during the Han Dynasty?

• paper, lock and key, the two bladed plow
• silk looms, windmills, papyrus
• the collar harness, the wheelbarrow, the phonetic alphabet
• paper, the collar harness, wheelbarrow

Why did Confucian scholars consider agriculture the most important occupation during the Han Dynasty?

• The believed agriculture kept the earth and heavens balanced
• The population of China increased, and there were many people to feed
• A farmer tills the land to feed others instead of struggling for power for himself.
• The Empress Lu had a dream in which farmers were sowing seeds