Ancient India Test Review

5,000 years ago, India's first civilization began around the .

• Mississippi River

• Indus River
• Nile River

• Tigris River

The two major cities that helped us learn about Indus culture were:

• Harappa and Mohenjo Daro

• New York and Harappa

• Tokyo and Seoul

• Dayton and Springfield

The highest point in the Himalayas is .

• Mount Everest
• Mount Doom

• Ganges River

• Deccan Plateau

Reincarnation is known as the

• Rebirth of the soul

• selection process for a new king

• arrangement of marriage

• deciding which drink to order at Starbucks

Aryan sacred texts were known as the .

• Vedas
• Emails

• Newspapers

• Book of the Dead

Chandra Gupta Maurya was the first ruler of the ____ Dynasty.

• Mauryan
• Chang

• Egyptian

• Persian

Gupta’s grandson, Ashoka, ruled with fierce wars of conquest. However, he had a change of heart when he decided to follow teachings and become a man of peace.

• Buddhist
• Hindu

• The Force

• Legalist

Indian mathematicians explained the idea of .

• Addition

• Infinity

• Division

• Multiplication

Indian astronomers proposed the theory that the Earth was _______.

• round

• flat

• tiny

• inside the Matrix

Doctors during the Gupta era could:

• sew wounds

• set broken bones

• perform complex surgeries

• all of the above