India
How was the Indus River formed?
Melted snowcaps of the Himalayan Mountains.
What is the name of Chinese writing that includes some 56,000 symbols and characters?
Calligraphy
Are folk tales fiction or non-fiction? Explain why.
They are fictional. They have talking characters that are animals, they feature magic, and they are not entirely real or factual.
What religion originated in India that believes in multiple Gods and the Ganges River is its holy place?
Hinduism
What is the name of the Continent that both India and China are located on?
Asia
What word describes the soil that surrounds a river that often floods due to runoff from a nearby mountain?
Fertile
What is the mountain range located in China?
The Bayankala Mountains
In this folk tale, there was a boy who made things come to life with an artistic tool. He tricked the greedy leader who was trying to force him to paint things for him.
The Magic Paint Brush
What religion originated in India, but is practiced in many countries today? They do not follow a God, but instead follow the 4 noble truths.
Buddhism
What is the name of the structure built in Northern China to defend against invaders?
The Great Wall of China
What is the mountain range that is the highest in the world and stretches for miles across Asia?
The Himalayas
What river is in the northern part of China that floods often and gets its name from the Bayankala Mountain silt?
The Yellow River
Explain how the Jackal was a trickster in "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal".
He played like he didn't understand what the tiger was saying and made the tiger replay everything. The tiger fell for it and went back into the cage.
What holiday is known as the festival of lights in Hinduism?
Diwali
What material was invented in China using the caterpillar form of a moth?
Silk
Hindu people from all over the world dream of someday visiting which river in India, which they consider sacred?
The Ganges river
What river was used for trading goods and was surrounded by ancient civilizations in China?
The Yangtze River
What lesson do the readers learn from "The Magic Paintbrush"?
Not to be greedy.
What is the Holy Text in Hinduism called?
The Vedas, The Rigvedas being the main Holy text
Name the 5 components of a civilization.
What ancient city was formed near the Indus river?
Mohenjo-Daro
Before the invention of paper, what materials did ancient chinese civilizations use to write on?
Bone, pottery, silk, metal and bamboo
Name all 6 things that the blind men mistook in the story "The Blind Men and the Elephant".
The legs were tree trunks.
The tail was a rope.
The trunk was a snake.
The side was a wall.
The ears were fans.
The tusks were spears.
Buddhists now call him Buddha, but what was Buddha's birth name?
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
What is the name of the trading route that expands across China and to the West?
The Silk Road