INDIA & CHINA VOCABULARYCHALLENGE

Respectfully SubmittedC. Stephen Ingraham

2008

A written message is called a a) Inscription b) Sanskrit

c) Vedas d) Caste

The Aryan holy books are called

a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

An unchanging group within a society is called

a) Inscription b) Sanskrit c) Vedas d) Caste

The Aryan language is called a) Inscription b) Sanskrit

c) Vedas d) Caste

A religion that believes in three gods: Brahma, the creator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Shiva, the destroyer.

a) Hinduism b) Buddhismc) Confucianism d) Polytheism

The religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.

a) Hinduism b) Buddhismc) Confucianism d) Polytheism

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

The people thought to be impure and below all of Indian castes.

a) Reincarnation b) The Low Ones c) Untouchables d) Aryans

The earliest warriors and herders who immigrated from central Asia to India.

a) Perisans b) Buddhists c) Egyptians d) Aryans

A large land area isolated from the rest of a continent

a) Isthmus b) Peloponnesus c) Strait d) Subcontinent.

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.

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

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

Religious teachers who help spread ideas to other areas.

a) assassinationers b) Arabic numerals c) Turning Points d) Missionaries.

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

Indian princes who ruled over large city-states

a)Emperors b) Pharaohs c) Vedas d) Rajahs

A collection of stories handed down from earlier times.

a) oracles b) legends c) virtues d) Vedas

The Chinese people believe this person gives wise advise.

a) oracle b) legend c) virtue d) Veda

Another name for good qualities.

a) oracles b) legends c) virtues d) Vedas

Dead relatives further back than grandparents.

a) ancestors b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

Structures built by the government for everyone’s use.

a) ancestors b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

A person who studies the meaning of life.

a) ancestor b) philosopher c) public worker d) heritage

The set of ideas that has been passed down from one generation to another.

a) ancestor b) philosophers c) public works d) heritage

A group made of volunteer soldiers.

a) mandate b) militia c) cavalry d) responsibilities

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

Drawings that were combined to make thousands of Chinese words.

a) mandates b) militias c) pictographs d) responsibilities

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

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.

The ideas and teaching of the philosopher Confucius.

a) Arthashastraism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Daoism

The idea that people obey their rulers out of fear and not out of respect.

a) Legalism b) Buddhism c) Confucianism d) Daoism

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

To send out goods to be sold in other places.

a) import b) barter c) money economy d) export

To bring into a country goods for sale..

a) import b) barter c) money economy d) export

Money gained over the price of goods sold.

a) import b) barter c) profits d) export

A group of traders traveling with goods to be sold.

a)trading network b) barter c) profits d) caravan

The trade route that stretched 5,000 miles from China to the Mediterranean Sea.

a)Trading network b) Barter c) Silk Road d) Caravan

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

A person who represents a government.

a) Trading network b) Ambassador c) Civil War d) Caravan

When groups of people from the same place or country fight one another.

a) Trading network b) Ambassadors c) Civil War d) Caravan

A network of appointed government officials.

a) ambassadors b) bureaucracy c) civil war d) democracy

The making of all things of a certain type alike.

a) monotheism b) bureaucracy c) standardization d) democracy