Chapter 9 Test Review

What is your first and last name?

Which of the following is one of India's three most important rivers?

• Arabian
• Bengal
• Ganges
• Indian

The large cities of the Indus Valley civilization featured homes made mostly of

• brick.

• grass.

• stone.

• wood.

What natural disasters possibly caused the people of the Indus Valley to begin to abandon their cities?

• disease and famine
• earthquakes and floods
• hurricanes and wildfires
• volcanoes and monsoons

Which was a nomadic people that entered the Indus River valley around 1500 BC?

• Aryans
• Ganges
• Sudras
• rajas

In India's varna system, the Kshatriyas class contained which people?

• common people
• priests
• Untouchables
• warriors and rulers

Which is one of the oldest religions in the world and is the world's third largest religion today?

• Aryanism
• Jainism
• Buddhism
• Hinduism

In Hinduism, the one universal spirit, or creator, is called

• Brahma.
• Brahman.
• Krishna.
• Shiva.

Who founded Buddhism during the 500s BC?

• the Dalai Lama
• Lakshmi
• Sarawati
• Siddhartha Gautama

The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up

• all desires.
• the Four Noble Truths.
• the Eightfold Path.
• suffering.