WH Test #1

5 Written Questions

1. Originally a vassal family of Shang China; possibly Turkic in origin. Overthrew Shang and established second historical Chinese dynasty.
2. sacred Hindu language developed by the Aryans in the Indus Valley
3. the most famous and largest of the pyramid. Built by Cheops
4. Moral duty hinduism
5. for Jewish people

5 Matching Questions

1. stupas
2. Sutras
3. pharaoh
4. Dharma (Buddhism)
5. Silk Road

1. a Network of roads through central Asia where silk and other luxury items were traded. Most trade was carried by nomadic merchants. Ideas were also traded.
2. b fundamental law of the universe
3. c egyptian king
4. d buddha's teaching
5. e stone shrines built to house personal possesions; preserved buddhist architecture

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
   1. filial piety
   2. Five precepts
   3. Fertile Crescent
   4. Aristocracy
2. migrated into Mesopotamia 4000 BCE created 1st civilization organized area into city-states
   1. Sumerians
   2. Guptas
   3. Aryans
   4. stupas
3. Societies distinguished by reliance on agriculture ability to produce food surpluses and existence of people specializing in other trades
   1. mummification
   2. vizier
   3. reincarnation
   4. Civilization
4. based on retribution divided by social classes covered every aspect of life set down rules and punishments
   1. Book of the Dead
   2. Siddhartha Guatama
   3. Hammurabi
   4. Code of Hammurabi
5. family of rulers
   1. varnas
   2. Han dynasty
   3. Zhou dynasty
   4. dynasty

5 True/False Questions

1. raja → the spiritual half of, the body which the egyptians believed could return

   True        False

2. Mandate of Heaven → people from Europe. aka. Hittites or Aryans

   True        False

3. Veneration of ancestors → Family members give and provide for their deceased family members.

   True        False

4. Vaisyas → dynasty established in Indian subcontinent in the 4th century B.C.E following invasion by alexander the great

   True        False

5. Bronze Age → About 4000 BCE when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East to about 1500 BCE when iron began to replace it

   True        False