Ancient China
Indus Valley
Hinduism
Buddhism
Beliefs of China
100

The english name for the Huang He.

What is the Yellow River?

100

The Indus River Valley is located where in today's world?

What is modern day Pakistan and Northwestern India?

100

The belief that when you do good, good will happen to you, and when you do bad, bad will happen to you.

What is Karma?

100

What is the common name of Siddhartha Gautama used in Buddhism?

What is the Budhda? ( The Awakened One)

100

What is the name of the period Confucius lived in called?

What is the Warring States period?

200

Yellow soil that gets deposited into the Huang He and when it builds up causes devastating floods.

What is Loess?

200

What made the Harappan Civilization different from other early river civilizations? (Hint: This is something they didn't have that other cultures did.)

What is they didn't seem to have any kings or palaces.

200

Name two of the divisions of the caste system, or name their general job or duty.

What are Brahmin (Priests and Teachers),

Kshatriyas (Warriors and Rulers)

Vaisyas ( Merchants and Tradesmen)

Sudras ( Laborers)?

200

What must one learn to give up to become enlightened in Buddhism?

What is to give up desires?

200

What two beliefs came out of the Zhou Dynasty?

What are Confucianism and Daoism?

300

Name two of the geographic features that isolated ancient China from the rest of the world.

What are the Pacific Ocean, Himalayan Mountains, Gobi Desert, and Taklamakan Desert.

300

Name the people group why moved into the Indus Valley after the Harappa Civilization fell? (Hint: It was thought until recently that this group wiped out the Harappans in war, now thought to be false. Used in modern language for a caucasian or white person.)

What are the Aryans?

300

What is Samsara in hinduism?

What is the cycle of continuous reincarnation?

300

Were did Buddhism originally come from?

What is Nepal?

300

Name at least 3 of the 5 cardinal relationships in Confuciansim.

What are; 

Ruler to Subject, Parent to Child, Husband to Wife, Older sibling to Younger Sibling, and Friend to Friend?

400

The reason that the Emperor could rule, what gave him the right to rule and could also take it away?

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

400

What is the large structure located in Harappa, that was used for either rituals, or cleaning. (Hint: large water holding structure)

What is The Great Bath?

400

Name 2 of the three Hindu deities we have talked about. (Hint: One of them shares a name with the highest class in the caste system).

What are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva?

400

What is the name in Buddhism for being balanced between being obsessed with your desires and self-punishment?

What is The Middle Way?

400

What are at least 3 of the 5 major religions of China?

What are; Protestant Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, and Daoism?

500

In Daoism (sometimes called Taoism), the symbol that represents light and dark, male and  female, warm and cold, dry and wet, is called what?

What is the Yin and Yang (Yin-Yang)?

500

What is the most likely reason we believe the Harapan Civilization fell?

What is less rain or the rivers changed location?

500

The name of the sacred books in Hinduism.

What is the Vedas?

500

The name of the 8 tenets of Buddhism that teaches how to reach enlightenment.

What is the Eightfold Path?

500

What does Wu Wei mean in Daoism (Taoism)?

What is effortless action, or effortless non-action?

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