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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 21mins
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Class
Date
1.
Most of our information about the Indus River civilization came from
a)
H G Wells
b)
ruins
c)
Mesopotamia
d)
ancient writings
2.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
a)
sacred texts that contain stories of war
b)
ancient ruins in India
c)
a religious group that came from the north
d)
a mountain range that separates India
3.
What do we call a large land mass smaller than a continent?
a)
a subcontinent
b)
a continette
c)
a civilization
d)
a landform
4.
Historians studying the Indus civilization know very little about its
a)
location
b)
ruins
c)
date
d)
language
5.
What is the Hindu Kush?
a)
a mountain range
b)
an ancient Indus city
c)
the hill of the dead
d)
a game played with dice
6.
The early Aryans were a people who
a)
spoke Indus
b)
came from northern Germany
c)
built Hindu Kush
d)
were nomads
7.
In battle, the Aryans were known to use
a)
pointed sticks and stones
b)
wooden clubs
c)
cannons
d)
chariots
8.
What are the Vedas?
a)
Hindu Kush
b)
religious chants and hymns
c)
fierce nomadic people who counted their wealth in cattle and other animals
d)
warriors who sailed down the Ganges in ships
9.
What is the language of the Vedas?
a)
Punjabi
b)
Hindi
c)
Sanskrit
d)
Mahabharata
10.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
a)
the son of Emperor Asoka
b)
the founder of Buddhism
c)
king of Sri Lanka
d)
leader of the Veda armies
11.
Which of the following is a teaching of Buddhism?
a)
The way to a satisfying life is to forget oneself.
b)
Riches and happiness are the key to a successful life.
c)
Suffering and death are not really part of life.
d)
People must worship the true god.
12.
Who was responsible for spreading the teachings of Buddha to other lands?
a)
Siddhartha Gautama
b)
Asoka
c)
the ascetics
d)
the Aryans
13.
What were the Brahmans?
a)
a type of bull
b)
priests
c)
lowly workers
d)
a family of musical composers
14.
What is a caste system?
a)
an ancient method of catching fish
b)
a way of writing with pictures
c)
a way of dividing people into social classes
d)
a system for packing and storing crops
15.
What religion do most people in India follow?
a)
Hinduism
b)
Buddhism
c)
Brahmanism
d)
Aryanism
16.
According to ancient Chinese legends, who invented civilization?
a)
the Indus
b)
the Three Good Emperors
c)
the Philosopher Kings
d)
oracles
17.
The oldest surviving Chinese writings are found
a)
carved into the Great Wall
b)
in the works of Confucious
c)
in the oldest surviving books
d)
on shells and bones
18.
People in different parts of China
a)
all worship Confucius
b)
speak different dialects
c)
can read cuneiform
d)
speak Pinyin
19.
Who developed a model for behavior?
a)
Confusius
b)
Yao and Shun
c)
Shih Huang-ti
d)
Xi'an
20.
What was the clay army?
a)
Chinese soldiers who built the Great Wall using clay and rocks.
b)
life-size statues that protected the tomb of the emperor Shih Huang-ti
c)
magical warriors used by Emperor Yao to defeat the king of Xi'an
d)
Chinese potters who also fought for General Tsao
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