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Ancient India Vocabulary 1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Aryan means

a)

India's warriors

b)

noble ones

c)

rich ones

d)

German

2.

Migration

a)

Moving to another city

b)

Moving from one place to another

c)

Moving to India

d)

Moving to Weston

3.

What is Sanskrit?

a)

A place used for writing

b)

Language of the Ganges

c)

Language of the Indus

d)

Language the Aryans brought with them to India.

4.

Meditation

a)

focusing the mind on spiritual ideas

b)

a prayer

c)

Napping

d)

focusing on summer vacation

5.

Which civilization would have relied on monsoon winds to transport trade goods?

a)

Americas

b)

Eruopeans

c)

India

d)

Mediterranean

6.

What was the Aryan written language called?

a)

English

b)

Indian

c)

Patriachal

d)

Sanskrit

7.

Which of these played the BIGGEST role in the success of the Aryan Invasions of the 15th

a)

The Nile River

b)

The Himalaya Mountouns

c)

Hindu Kush Mountains

d)

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

8.

A word or sound repeated to help in concentrating especially in Hinduism or Buddhism is a

a)

prayer

b)

mantra

c)

poem

d)

oratory

9.

One of the oldest Indian city that developed from a village was

a)

Harappa

b)

Indus

c)

Kush

d)

Mesopotamia

10.

Mohenjo-Daro

a)

An ancient city in Mesopotamia.

b)

A large ancient city in South India.

c)

A large ancient city in the foot hills of the Himalayas

d)

An ancient major city of the Indus River Valley.

11.

The highest mountain range in the world

a)

The Everest

b)

The Hindu Kush

c)

The Himalayas

d)

The Tibor

12.

A monsoon is

a)

a strong wind that flows from central Asia to Mozambique.

b)

A strong wind that blows in one direction in the winter, and the opposite in the summer.

c)

Is the cause of many hurricanes

d)

A large boat named for the moon.

13.

A subcontinent is

a)

a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.

b)

a landmass that juts out from large islands.

c)

a penisula

d)

an island

14.

The two major rivers of Ancient India were

a)

The Yangtze and Himalaya

b)

Indus and Nile

c)

Indus and Ganges

d)

Ganges and the Harappa

15.

Irrigation

a)

A way of supplying water to an area of land needing toilets.

b)

a way of supplying water to an area.

c)

a tool used to control water falls

d)

A city in India