Ancient India (Easter River Valley) QUIZ

1. What is a characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilization?

• Cities were always at war
• Cities were designed without thinking
• Cities were planned in grid patterns and had their own plumbing and sewage systems
• Cities were destroyed by invaders in horse drawn chariots

2. Which letter on this map represents the Indus River Valley civilization?

• A
• B
• C
• D

3. From ancient times to the present, India has depended on the summer rains brought by seasonal winds called:

• Ioess
• Mystics
• Monsoons
• Brahmins

4. The symbols in the image of Indus Valley seal above represent:

• A language that is not deciphered
• No one knows
• Artistic designs
• Hieroglyphics

5. Indus Valley Cities were arranged around a central building. The ruins of one such building is pictured is pictured above. What is it?

• A ziggurat to the gods
• A great bath
• A government building
• A pyramid

7. We know that the people of the Indus Valley traded with the Sumerians. How do we know this?

• We found remnants of their ships in the Indian Ocean
• Indus Valley seals were found in Mesopotamia and Sumerian items were found in the Indus Valley
• Sumerians learned plumbing from Indus Valley people
• Sumerian Bronze artifacts were found in Egypt

8. All ancient river valley civilizations were affected by flooding. What was different about the Indus valley civilization?

• They also had to content with earthquakes and Monsoons
• The rivers flooded predictably twice a year
• They lived in the Hindu Kush Mountains which are full of volcanoes that regularly erupted
• They had developed no ships that could navigate the rivers

9. Why do historians believe the Indus valley civilization may have been very different from the other?

• They were a peaceful people with very little evidence of weapons being found
• There are no elaborate temples and palaces in the cities and no giant statues or rulers or gods
• Their technology was much more advanced than the other river valley civilizations
• They were pastoralists

10. Which of these was NOT a major city discovered in the Indus Valley?

• Harappa
• Anyang
• Mohenjo-Darro

11. The oldest scriptures of Hinduism

• Sanskirt
• The Vedas
• Book of Castes
• Oracle Bones