1. INDIA & CHINA VOCABULARY CHALLENGE Respectfully Submitted C. Stephen Ingraham 2008

2. A written message is called a a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

3. The Aryan holy books are called a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

4. An unchanging group within a society is called a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

5. The Aryan language is called a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

6. A religion that believes in three gods: Brahma, the creator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Shiva, the destroyer. a) Hinduism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Polytheism

7. The religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. a) Hinduism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Polytheism

8. The belief that the soul lives on after death and returns to life in a new body. a) Hinduism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Reincarnation

9. The people thought to be impure and below all of Indian castes. a) Reincarnation b) The Low Ones c) Untouchables d) Aryans

10. The earliest warriors and herders who immigrated from central Asia to India. a) Perisans b) Buddhists c) Egyptians d) Aryans

11. A large land area isolated from the rest of a continent a) Isthmus b) Peloponnesus c) Strait d) Subcontinent.

12. The practice of giving people a mild form of a disease to prevent them from getting sick with a more serious form. a)Assassination b) Peloponnesus c) Inoculation d) Subcontinent.

13. A murder for a political reason. a) Isthmus b) Peloponnesus c) Assassination d) Subcontinent.

14. A time of important change. a) Assassination b) Arabic numeral c) Turning Point d) Missionary.

15. Religious teachers who help spread ideas to other areas. a) assassinationers b) Arabic numerals c) Turning Points d) Missionaries.

16. The base ten number system using 1-9 and zero that we use today. a) Primary number system b) Arabic numerals c) Time line system d) Composite numbers

17. Indian princes who ruled over large city-states a)Emperors b) Pharaohs c) Vedas d) Rajahs

18. A collection of stories handed down from earlier times. a) oracles b) legends c) virtues d) Vedas

19. The Chinese people believe this person gives wise advise. a) oracle b) legend c) virtue d) Veda

20. Another name for good qualities. a) oracles b) legends c) virtues d) Vedas

21. Dead relatives further back than grandparents. a) ancestors b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

22. Structures built by the government for everyone’s use. a) ancestors b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

23. A person who studies the meaning of life. a) ancestor b) philosopher c) public worker d) heritage

24. The set of ideas that has been passed down from one generation to another. a) ancestor b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

25. A group made of volunteer soldiers. a) mandate b) militia c) cavalry d) responsibilities

26. A order to rule or to lead. a) mandate b) militia c) pictograph d) responsibilities

27. Drawings that were combined to make thousands of Chinese words. a) mandates b) militias c) pictographs d) responsibilities

28. A person’s duties. a)mandate b) militia c) pictograph d) responsibilities

29. The right of a Chinese leader to rule given to him by the gods. a) annex b) mandate of heaven c) conquer d) desertification of the gods.

30. The ideas and teaching of the philosopher Confucius. a) Arthashastraism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Daoism

31. The idea that people obey their rulers out of fear and not out of respect. a) Legalism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Daoism

32. The idea that the key to long life and happiness is to accept life as it is. a) Legalism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Daoism

33. To send out goods to be sold in other places. a) import b) barter c) money economy d) export

34. To bring into a country goods for sale.. a) import b) barter c) money economy d) export

35. Money gained over the price of goods sold. a) import b) barter c) profits d) export

36. A group of traders traveling with goods to be sold. a)trading network b) barter c) profits d) caravan

37. The trade route that stretched 5,000 miles from China to the Mediterranean Sea. a)Trading network b) Barter c) Silk Road d) Caravan

38. The part of government bureaucracy that oversees the day- to-day business of running a government. a)Trading network b) Ambassadors c) Civil Service d) Caravan

39. A person who represents a government. a) Trading network b) Ambassador c) Civil War d) Caravan

40. When groups of people from the same place or country fight one another. a) Trading network b) Ambassadors c) Civil War d) Caravan

41. A network of appointed government officials. a) ambassadors b) bureaucracy c) civil war d) democracy

42. The making of all things of a certain type alike. a) monotheism b) bureaucracy c) standardization d) democracy