Ancient India
Complete the following using pages 53 through 56 of your textbook.
1. What geographic barriers isolate the Indian subcontinent?
2. Describe the three regions of India.
3. What is the monsoon and how does it affect Indian life?
4. Give two reasons why archaeologists know so little about the Indus Valley civilization.
5. Describe the ruins of the cities found by archaeologists in the Indus Valley.
6. Who most likely ruled the Indus Valley cities? What was the extent of the rulers’ power?
7. List and describe three types of economic activities of the Indus Valley civilization.
8. What do archaeologists believe to have caused the decline of the Indus Valley civilization?
Complete the following using pages 57 through 59 of your textbook.
9. Who were the Aryans?
10. What was the role of the rajah in Aryan society?
11. What was the Vedas?
12. Was the Aryan religion mono- or polytheistic?
13. What did Aryans typically pray for?
14. What were the Upanishads?
15. What is reincarnation?
16. What was Sanskrit?
17. What were the responsibilities of the oldest male in the extended family in Aryan society?
18. As time went by, what happened to the role of women in Aryan society?
19. In descending order list the social classes of Aryan society.
20. What was the caste system in Aryan society? Who were the untouchables?
Ancient China
Complete the following using pages 60 through 64 of your textbook.
1. What were the four outlying regions of ancient China?
2. What geographic barriers isolated ancient China?
3. How did the Chinese of the Middle Kingdom view China and those who were not Chinese?
4. What was the name of the first Chinese dynasty?
5. What accounts for the complexity of Chinese writing in ancient and even modern times?
6. Was ancient Chinese religion mono- or polytheistic?
7. What role did ancestors play in ancient Chinese religion?
8. What was the largest class in ancient Chinese society?
9. What advancements gave the ancient Chinese military superiority over their enemies?
10. List examples of ancient Chinese advancements in the arts and the sciences.
Complete the following using pages 65 through 67 of your textbook.
11. What was the “Mandate of Heaven” in the Chou Dynasty?
12. Describe the feudal system that developed during the Chou Dynasty.
13. What problem did feudal nobles cause for the Chou Dynasty?
14. In descending order list the social classes of Chou society.
15. What caused economic growth to occur during the Chou Dynasty?
16. What caused the decline of the Chou Dynasty?
17. What institutions of the Chou Dynasty became part of the unified Chinese state?