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Why was the Gupta dynasty known as the Golden Age of Classical Indian civilization?
a) Art, literature and mathematics grew in importance
b) Religion played a key role in the lives of the people
c) The people found a lot of gold in the rivers
d) Doctors found herbs to heal sickness

The concept of zero was first created by mathematicians during which Classical Indian Dynasty?
a) Gupta
b) Mauryan
c) Shang
d) Han

How did the Hindu Caste system change Indian society?
a) It was a lifelong social class that created a system of roles for citizens.
b) It changed it from a republic to a dictatorship
c) It made all citizens participate in Hinduism
d) It required all citizens to specialize in math

Which product would have most likely been traded from the East to the West?
a) Porcelain
b) Gold
c) Silver
d) Wood

What is the origin of Hinduism and Buddhism?
a) India
b) China
c) Egypt
d) Mesopotamia

What was the origin of Confucianism and Taoism?
a) Ancient China
b) Ancient Egypt
c) Ancient India
d) Ancient Mesopotamia

Between the Tang and Ming dynasties, Chinese literature reached a new height because
a) printing was invented
b) The government paid writers
c) The Chinese population increased
d) People were bored looking for entertainment

Which of the following correctly describes the similarities between Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, India and China?
a) They depended on rivers to provide fertile soil, irrigation and transportation.
b) They wrote hieroglyphics on paper made from trees
c) Their economy was supported by making medicines from oracle bones
d) They had divine kingship

How did silk affect the economy of ancient China?
a) China's economy profited because silk was a valued trade item in the West
b) No money was made from selling it because silk was too expensive to produce
c) Most people preferred to buy cotton because silk was too hard to keep clean.
d) China did not make a profit from selling it because silk was made in other parts of the world.

Due to isolation, the ancient people of India relied solely on food they could grow themselves. What is this called?
a) subsistence farming
b) double cropping
c) terrace farming
d) irrigation

What farming methods were used by the Chinese to have a food surplus?
a) terraces, double cropping
b) Loess, civil service
c) terraces, middle men
d) turtle shells, irrigation

What was an effect of trade along the Silk Road?
a) Ideas and goods were exchanged between cultures
b) They gained food surplus
c) People built walls to stop flooding
d) Shi Huangdi built the Great Wall

What are the four great inventions of China?
a) gunpowder, woodblock printing, compass, paper
b) gunpowder, compass, wheel, plow
c) compass, seismograph, plastic surgery, paper
d) woodblock printing, maps, compass and pyramids

Why was trade along the Silk Road important to the development of the Chinese civilization?
a) It brought great wealth to China
b) It weakened rivals in Japan and India
c) It created alliances with Japan and India
d) IT brought disease to China

How did early Chinese civilizations determine who would work in government positions?
a) positions were given to people who scored the best on a civil service exam
b) positions were given to people who had relatives working in the government
c) positions were given to people who gave money to support the government.
d) positions were given to people related to the emperor

Which of the following is the language brought to Ancient India by the Aryans
a) Sanskrit
b) Hieroglyphics
c) Cuneiform
d) Calligraphy

What were two forms of artistic expression as used by the Tang and Song dynasties?
a) Calligaphry and poetry
b) drama and painting
c) opera and acting
d) mosaics and pottery

Which of the following was affected by the caste you were born into?
a) marriage, occupation, foods eaten
b) foods eaten, religion, education
c) marriage, religion, government
d) occupation, education, government

Which of the following is NOT Chinese achievement?
a) Plastic Surgery
b) Silk
c) Paper
d) Seismograph

Which of the following statements is true about China?
a) The Huang He brought important loess to the river valley.
b) The Indus River brought extremely fertile soil
c) The Nile River often flooded China, decimating crops
d) The Tigris brought important loess to the river valley.

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