Ancient India
This river was the heart of early Indian civilization and supported farming and trade.
The Ganges River (acceptable: Indus River if referring to earlier settlements
The Shang dynasty is known for working with this metal to make tools and ritual objects. What is it?
Bronze.
The Zhou introduced the idea that rulers had the right to rule only if they governed justly. What is this idea called?
Mandate of Heaven
Military
Warlord
What word is used the describe the study of how human beings behave?
Anthropology
Name the social system that divided people into hereditary groups with specific duties in ancient India.
The caste system (or varna/jati system)
Name the writing system used during the Shang dynasty that involved inscriptions on animal bones and turtle shells.
Oracle bone script (oracle bone inscriptions).
The Zhou Dynasty lasted for about how many years?
800
To set rules to make things more similar
What word is used to describe the study of human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind?
Archaeologists
This religion, founded in India, teaches the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Name it.
Buddhism.
The Shang did not use an alphabet but rather pictures that represent words or ideas what were these called?
Pictographs
How did the Zhou gain power of the Shang?
When they invaded the Shang warriors refused to fight due to corruption withing the government.
An ancient Chinese philosophy stating that strong leader and legal system, not moral values, are needed to create social order.
Legalism
What word means the many different elements that make up the way of life of a people?
Culture
This Mauryan emperor converted to Buddhism and sent missionaries across Asia after the Kalinga War. Who was he?
Ashoka (Ashoka the Great).
Chinese characters use this type of script which is a written character that represents a complete word or phrase, what is this script called?
Iogograph
From about 475 to 221 B.C.E. total disorder and chaos erupted in China this period became known as the what?
Warring States Period
Single person or group who controls the production of a good or service
Monopoly
What is the belief called in which people believe that the natural world is filled with spirits?
Animism
Describe one way the Gupta Empire contributed to mathematics or science (give a specific example such as a concept, invention, or person).
Examples: concept of zero and decimal system contributions; Aryabhata (approximations of pi); advances in metallurgy such as ironworking — teacher should verify student example and reasoning.
Explain how the Shang kept power within the family.
Power was passed from brother to brother and from the youngest brother to his oldest son.
Explain one technological or philosophical development from the Zhou period and how it affected Chinese society (give a specific example).
Examples: development of iron tools, irrigation, or early Zhou philosophy beginnings leading to Confucianism/Daoism later; explain social or agricultural impacts — teacher should verify.
A tool to measure earthquakes
seismometer
What word describes the process of others being dependent on each other in history?
Interdependence