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CHAPTER 6 TEST REVIEW

  1. Who was the prince who became the Buddha?

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  1. Who was the first great Buddhist king?

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  1. What was India’s golden age of learning and culture called?

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  1. What was the name of the Hindu god who was the destroyer of the world?

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  1. What are the highest mountains in the world?

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  1. What is another name for the “untouchables” of India?

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  1. What was the capital city of both the Mauryan and Gupta empires?

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  1. What term means “divine law” and directs Hindus to do the duty of their caste?

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  1. What major farming invention did the Aryans bring with them to India?

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  1. What religion grew from a mixture of Aryan and Harappan beliefs?

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  1. What religion believes that the way to stop suffering is to stop desire?

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  1. What system in India controls a person’s job, social group, and marriage?

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  1. Who was the Hindu god who was the teacher of the world?

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  1. What section of the Mahabharta talks about doing one’s duty?

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  1. What rights did Indian women have?

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  1. What does Indian literature stress as being important?

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  1. What is different about Indian marriages, even today?

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  1. Which river empties into the Arabian Sea?

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  1. What did Indian astronomers recognize about the Earth?

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  1. What is the belief that people pass through many lives called?

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CHOOSE ONE OF THE ESSAY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:

  1. What is suttee? What does this practice say about the relative values of men and women in ancient Indian culture?
  1. Name two advances made by Indian mathematicians without which computers would be impossible today?

WRITE YOUR ANSWER ON THE BACK.

CH. 6 REVIEW ANSWERS

  1. Siddhartha Gautama
  1. Asoka
  1. Gupta empire
  1. Siva
  1. Himalaya
  1. pariahs
  1. Pataliputra
  1. dharma
  1. iron plows
  1. Hinduism
  1. Buddhism
  1. caste
  1. Krishna
  1. Bhagavad Gita
  1. schooling
  1. dharma
  1. they are arranged
  1. Indus
  1. It revolved around

The sun

  1. reincarnation
  1. Suttee is the practice of high-caste women leaping into the cremation fires of their husbands. Since refusing would bring shame to the wife it shows that men were valued more than women in ancient Indian society.
  1. The concept and symbol for zero and mathematical algorithms, or problem-solving methods, are necessary for computers of today.