Dynasties
Geography of Asia
Asian Religions
Asian Influences
Random Facts
100

The people of the Shang dynasty worshipped these.

What are ancestors? 

100

These two rivers supply the largest portion of India

What are the Brahmaputra and the Ganges rivers? 

100
The Enlightened One

Who is Buddha?

100

Proportions found in mud bricks show that the Indus civilization had an understanding of this.

What is Mathematics? 

100

The term Huang-Ti means this.

What is Yellow Emperor?

200

The Zhou government was called the ______. 

What is Fenjian? 
200

These mountains keep monsoons from moving out of India to the North.

What are the Himalayas? 

200

A force that is shaped by the sum total of a person's actions

What is Karma?
200

The Shang writing system used hieroglyphics similar to this other ancient civilization.

What is Ancient Egypt? 

200

This is considered the world's oldest practiced religion.

What is Hinduism? 

300
This dynasty is the third dynasty. The Xia, the Shang, and the _______. 

What is the Zhou dynasty? 

300

The ____ civilization formed on the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Who are the Vedic?

300

The "world soul" and the source of the material universe

What is Brahman?

300

Founded in 5th century BC by Siddhartha Gautama

What is Buddhism? 
300
Religious writings that tell us about the Vedic civilization

What are the Vedas? 

400

Pictographs from this dynasty were written on silk, bamboo, bronze, stone, and bones.

What is the Shang Dynasty?

400
These mountains separate European Russia from Asia Russia
What are the Ural Mountains? 
400

The state of happiness and enlightenment in Buddhism

What is Nirvana?

400

The Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations had public buildings and these - a great thing to prevent a smelly situation!

What are sewers? 

400

A name for a chain of islands.

What is archipelago? 
500

A queen serving as a general showed the enlightened view of _____ in the Zhou dynasty. 

What is women? 

500

The Baikals form the southern boundary of this landmass.

What is the Eurasian landmass? 

500

Hinduism has its beginnings in these writings

What are the Vedic Writings? 

500

This person converted to Buddhism, made it a state religion, and built a temple... though he was not Buddha.

Who is Ashoka?

500

The earliest known settlement on the Indian subcontinent. 

What is the Mehrgarh? 

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