WorksheetsAncient India Review B2
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 33mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What did the untouchables do ?
a)
Teach
b)
Skin animals,take out trash
c)
cook
d)
all of the above
2.
Who was in the Brahmans Group?
a)
Warriors
b)
Servants
c)
Priests
d)
Untouchables
3.
Who were the Vaisyas?
a)
untouchables
b)
common people
c)
warriors,rulers
d)
unskilled laborers and servents
4.
When did India's early civilization begin?
a)
A.D 500
b)
680 B.C
c)
3000 B.C
d)
230 B.C.E
5.
Where were the Aryans from?
a)
Northern India
b)
Asia Minor
c)
Central Asia
d)
Central Africa
6.
What is the third highest social class of India?
a)
Kshatriyas
b)
Brahmans
c)
Sudras
d)
Vaisyas
7.
what are the highest mountains in Asia.
a)
The Himalayas
b)
The church
c)
Mountain expelliarmus
d)
your dad
8.
What is something that the Ancient India Society can not change when they are born.
a)
Sanskrit
b)
raja
c)
Himalaya
d)
Caste
9.
What was another word for the caste group known as the Untouchables?
a)
Brahmans
b)
Indus-folk
c)
Pariahs
d)
Polluting Workers
10.
What is one thing that Harappans grew?
a)
corn
b)
Strawberries
c)
rice
d)
berries
11.
where did the Aryan come from ?
a)
North Pole
b)
South america
c)
central Asia
d)
India
12.
Blank known as common people were at the third level of the pyramid.
a)
Pariahs
b)
Kshatriyas
c)
Brahmans
d)
Vaisyas
13.
What were houses with flat roofs built with?
a)
sand
b)
mud bricks
c)
food
d)
rocks
14.
Which of these below is the title for a teacher that educates until their students (a BOY OR MAN) travel to the city?
a)
Raja
b)
Brahmin
c)
Harappa
d)
Guru
15.
whats the definition of Sanskrit
a)
type of language
b)
a prince
c)
a mountain
d)
or a river
16.
The common people were blank in the caste system.
a)
Vaisyas
b)
Brahmans
c)
Raja
d)
Sudras
17.
how did we learn from the Harappans?
a)
Their writings
b)
their ruins
c)
their people
d)
papers
18.
Where were the Aryans from?
a)
Arizona
b)
India
c)
Africa
d)
Asia
19.
What did Harappan farmers grow?
a)
Rice, corn, beans, barley, and carrots
b)
Rice, wheat, barley, peas, and cotton
c)
Peas, beans, cotton, corn, and wheat
d)
Potatoes, lettuce, beans, wheat, and cotton
20.
What Sea/Ocean does the Ganges river empty into?
a)
Arabian Sea
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Indian Ocean
d)
Iapetus Ocean
21.
Who was in the highest level of authority.
a)
Sudras
b)
Vaisyas
c)
Brahmins
d)
Kshatriyas
22.
What written language did the Aryans make
a)
Hieroglyphics
b)
Alphabet
c)
Sanskrit
d)
Cuneiform
23.
In India's caste system, what class contains common people?
a)
Brahmins
b)
Sudras
c)
Kshatriyas
d)
Vaisyas
24.
What did the Harappans grow?
a)
rice, corn, beets, cotten, tomatos
b)
rice,wheat, barley, beans, cotten
c)
sugar cane, nether wart, turnips, radishes beans
d)
winter squash, pumpkins, lettuce, peas, sweet potatoes
25.
The Aryans created the blank?
a)
Iron Sword
b)
Iron plow
c)
Iron Arrow
d)
Iron Shovel
26.
What is a raja?
a)
tiger
b)
teacher
c)
prince
d)
cow
27.
Who or what is Raja
a)
A name for a chili dog
b)
A religion that the Indians made
c)
A prince of a small tribe
d)
CHACK FIL-ACK
28.
Who is the universal spirit in Hinduism?
a)
Siddhartha Gautama
b)
Buddha
c)
Dalai Lama
d)
Brahman
29.
Who is the creator and destroyer of the world in the Hindu religion?
a)
Brahman,Krishna
b)
Dieties,Siva
c)
Brahman, Siva
d)
Hinduisim, Buddisim
30.
who invented Buddhism in 600 B.C
a)
Krishna
b)
Siddhartha
c)
Brahma
d)
Hindus
31.
Who created Buddhism
a)
Dalai Lama
b)
Siddhartha Guatama
c)
nirvana
d)
Sorry I ran out of ideas
32.
______ is the consequence of how you live.
a)
dharma
b)
Buddhism
c)
karma
d)
Buddha
33.
What is the form of Buddhism that teaches that the Buddha is a god who came to save people?
a)
Theravada Buddhism
b)
Southeast Asia Buddhism
c)
Mahayana Buddhism
d)
Tibet Buddhism
34.
What is one country that many Buddhists live in today?
a)
Arizona
b)
California
c)
Thailand
d)
Alabama
35.
The founder of Buddhism is known as the Buddha which means BLANK.
a)
Founder
b)
Enlightened One
c)
Karma
d)
Siva
36.
What were the two types of Buddhism ?
a)
Siddhartha Gautama
b)
Theocracy and Nirvana
c)
Buddhism and Hinduism
d)
Mahayana and Thereveda
37.
What spirit is the destroyer of the world.
a)
Surya
b)
Siva
c)
Ganesha
d)
Krishna
38.
Which country has a unique type of Mahayana Buddhism because it mixed with Hinduism and the country's traditional religion?
a)
Cambodia
b)
Tibet
c)
India
d)
Canada
39.
What would the consequence, in reincarnation, be if one's life was uneventful or unsuccessful?
a)
They would not come back at all.
b)
They would be in Nirvana forever.
c)
They would be in a lower Caste position.
d)
They would become an animal.
40.
Buddhists believed that the only way to find truth was to_____.
a)
Believe in Brahman
b)
Learn
c)
Believe in Krishna
d)
Give up all desires
41.
What is karma?
a)
All desires in life
b)
Consequences for your actions
c)
state of mind
d)
Siddartha Gautama
42.
Who founded Buddhism?
a)
Dalai Lama
b)
Siddhartha Gautama
c)
Brahmins
d)
Untouchables
43.
Who did the hindu belive to be the destroyer of the world?
a)
Siva
b)
Brahma
c)
Vishnu
d)
Ganesha
44.
Who founded Buddhism?
a)
Aristotle
b)
Mohenjo-Daro
c)
Siddharta Gautama
d)
Kashta
45.
what did the budda say to give up get to nirvana?
a)
life
b)
disneyland
c)
PEANUT BUTTER
d)
all desires
46.
Where do the Buddhists live now?
a)
India Asia China
b)
Europe Kansas Asia
c)
Thailand Combodia Srilanka
d)
Arizona Maryland New York
47.
Krishna is the ___________?
a)
Teacher of the world
b)
Destroyer of the world
c)
Deity of the sun
d)
Preserver of the world
48.
What government did the ancient Indians have.
a)
Democracy
b)
Ogligarcy
c)
representitive
d)
Theocracy
49.
Which of the instruments listed did the Early Indians not play
a)
lutes
b)
flutes
c)
drums
d)
harps
50.
Chandragupta set up a Good____system?
a)
land owning system
b)
Government system
c)
Spy
d)
Postal
51.
what is the best known section in the Mahabharata
a)
Bhagavad Gita
b)
there isn't one
c)
Ramayana
d)
Mahabharata,
52.
Who was India's first empire founder?
a)
Asoka
b)
Chandragupta Maurya
c)
Kalidasa
d)
Alexander the Great
53.
What is one if the instruments the early Indians played?
a)
Guitar
b)
piano
c)
drums
d)
harmonica
54.
What did the Gupta empire trade?
a)
ships pencils salt
b)
salt cloth iron
c)
cloth iron paper
d)
slaves food plants
55.
What city was the capital of the Mauryan Empire?
a)
Gupta
b)
Pataliputra
c)
Buddha
d)
Chandragupta
56.
what mauryan ruler built new roads and hospitals
a)
pataliputra
b)
asoka
c)
zero
d)
kalidasa
57.
what caused the fall of the Mauryan empire?
a)
Chandragupta's death
b)
extreme floods
c)
a category 5 hurricane
d)
Asoka's death
58.
Asoka was history's first great _________ king
a)
hotdog
b)
buddhist
c)
Indian
d)
hindus
59.
What was Asoka's religion ?
a)
Kalidasa
b)
Hinduism
c)
Buddhism
d)
Theocracy
60.
What numeric system spread throughout Europe taking the Roman numeral system out of use?
a)
Algorithms
b)
Architecture
c)
Vedas
d)
Aryhabata
61.
What is the best known section of the Mahabharata?
a)
Krishna
b)
Kalidasa
c)
Bhagavad Gita
d)
Ramayana
62.
Who is the greatest king in the Mauryan Dynasty.
a)
Pataliputra
b)
Asoka
c)
Stupas
d)
Chandraguta Maurya
63.
Who founded the first empire?
a)
Mrs. Palos
b)
Chandragupta
c)
Asoka
d)
Kalidassa
64.
What is a stupa?
a)
A Buddhist shrine in the shape of a dome or mound
b)
An empire
c)
A leader that holds high power
d)
A type of postal system that people used to communicate
65.
who is the leading mathmatic in the guta empire
a)
Asoka
b)
Aryabhata
c)
Chandragupta
d)
Buddha
66.
What played an important part in the religous social lives of people in India
a)
Art
b)
Music
c)
Math
d)
Science
67.
What is the capital of the Mauryan dynasty under the rule of Chandragupta Maura?
a)
Pheonix
b)
Jerusalem
c)
Pataliputra
d)
Las Vegas
68.
Who founded India's first empire.
a)
Kalidasa
b)
Chandragupta Maurya
c)
Asoka
d)
Buddha
69.
Who was the first Buddhist King
a)
Chandragupta Maurya
b)
Asoka
c)
Pataliputra
d)
Mike Wazowski
70.
What is the most important city in the ancient world
a)
Gilbert
b)
Alexandrea
c)
Harrapa
d)
Mohenjo-Daro
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