EOY Ancient World 8.0

The Buddha taught that there were Four ...

• Bodily Humors

• Types of People in the world

• Noble Truths

• Seasons

Buddha taught that suffering can be escaped by following the eight-fold path. That is a prescription for ...

(a)  

• right living, right action, right intention
• penicillin
• catastrophe
• how to win friends and influence people

The Mauryan Emperor Asoka saw the death and destruction his conquests had caused, and ...

• he danced around and cheered

• went on with his conquering anyway

• he thought it would be very expensive to rebuild

• he was filled with remorse, became a Buddhist and renounced violence

Ancient Chinese civilization began along the river valleys of the (a)   .

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Mississippi and Alabama
• Huang He and Yangtze
• Amazon and Rio Negro

When natural catastrophes, floods, famines, civil unrest and rebellion plagued China, it became obvious to everyone that the King had lost __________

• the Mandate of Heaven

• the Key to Success

• the Will of the People

• the Favor of the Gods

Confucius teaches that when a young man learns to be respectful and reverent towards parents and elders, he is showing (a)  

• mandatory modesty
• filial piety
• how weak he is
• fried fish

the Han dynasty ruled over ____________ in population size, government and level of cultural sophistication,

• a small portion of the Earth

• one of the most primitive cultures

• one of the greatest empires of antiquity

• the largest country ever in the world

(a)   became the ruling ideology of China under the Han Dynasty, and would remain so into the 20th century.

• Confucianism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Liberalism

The complex of trade routes that went from China to the Mediterranean Sea during the Han and Roman Empires was called ...

• The Royal Road

• The Jade Highway

• The Major Trade Route

• The Silk Road