Ancient India Review

If you are a person who works with the dead, cleans the street, has a sickness or incurable disease where you would fit in the social pyramid. 

• Untouchables
• Kshatriya
• Vashaya
• Brahmin

What do archaeologists believe about Harappan cities?

• Destroyed by aliens
• Created as fortresses
• Created as temples
• Created as planned communities

The Indian_____________ is a landmass separated by the rest of Asia by the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush.

• delta
• continent
• subcontinent
• plateau

The two main rivers in Ancient India......

• Indus & Euphrates
• Euphrates & Tigris
• Nile & Ganges
• Indus & Ganges

What river is labeled on this map?  

• Indus 
• Ganges
• Euphrates 
• Brahmaputra 

India's social system of the social class in which you were born into was called __________.

• pyramid
• social status
• social class
• caste system

Who was the Leader of the Golden Age of India?

• Gupta
• Asoka
• Buddha 
• Sargon

India was a very big piece of land, but not as big as a continent. It was called a ________________.

• continent
• subcontinent
• country
• state

Nomadic cattle herders that migrated across the Hindu Kush mountains from central Asia and into the Indus Valley around 1500 BC.

• Mongols 
• Huns
• Aryans 
• Hittites 

Hinduism was founded by one man.

• True
• False