Ancient India Homework

Label the map with the correct geographical feature.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Indian Ocean

Indus River

Arabian Sea

Himalaya Mountains

Ganges River

Hindu Kush Mountains

What are the Vedas?

• The oldest texts in Hinduism

• A set of laws written on stone

• A series of scrolls that contain the history of ancient people

• A group of men who study Hinduism and Buddhism

What is the god Shiva's title? ​ (a)  

• the destroyer
• the creator
• the protector

What is the god Brahma's title? ​ (a)  

• the creator
• the destroyer
• the ruler

According to the belief of Karma, a servant who does bad things would MOST LIKELY be reincarnated as which of the following?

• A god

• A priest

• a street sweeper

• a warrior

What is the meaning of "reincarnation"?

• Being reborn as a higher or lower life form

• Replanting flowers in a garden outside

• When a person dies and joins the Afterlife

• When a person dies and their soul wanders the Earth forever

Which of the following is an achievement of the Indus River Valley?

• Mummifying bodies

• Colorful pictures being transmitted through the air

• Sounds that travel through the air

• Large streets laid out in grid patterns

Which of the following is NOT an effect that agriculture had on the Indus River Valley civilization?

• Animals dying of diseases

• The ability for people to focus on different jobs

• The ability to grow different crops

• The ability to train animals to work for them

dharma

• rigid social categories that determine each

  person’s position in Indian society.

• the top position in the social hierarchy of India.

• the four major social classes in Aryan society

• divine law that requires people to do their duty

Seasonal winds that brought lots of rain and impacted the Indus Valley

Civilization.

• sanskrit

• monsoons

• mud bricks

• drainage systems