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Material Type: Quiz; Class: Humanities; Subject: Humanities; University: Santa Fe Community College; Term: Forever 1989;
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Quiz 3 ANCIENT INDIA & CHINA
1. The earliest civilizations in India were located in A) Central India. B) northwest India. C) the southern tip of India. D) all of the above. 2. NOT among the features introduced by the Aryans who invaded India: A) the caste system B) Sanskrit C) the first epic literature D) the lost-wax method of bronze-casting 3. Hindus identify the word "Brahman" with A) the sun god. B) the laws of nature. C) Absolute Spirit. D) the Wheel of Rebirth. 4. The authority to rule, according to ancient Chinese texts, was given to the ruler by A) ancestors. B) the people. C) the sun god. D) Heaven. 5. A major characteristic of China's early literature is A) the caste system. B) all of the above. C) the veneration of ancestors. D) the worship of many gods.
6. The word "dao" can best be defined in English as A) the will of the gods. B) hierarchy. C) the way of nature. D) covenant. 7. The Yellow River earned its nickname "China's Sorrow" because A) it was a turbulent river. B) it was a common place for people to commit suicide. C) it carried a heavy load of loess. D) its frequent floods were very destructive to agricultural society. 8. According to Zhou political theory, the Zhou king overthrew the Shang dynasty because A) the last Shang king was a criminal fool. B) the subjects of Shang shifted their loyalty to Zhou. C) the Shang lost the mandate of heaven. D) the Zhou was a much larger state than the Shang. 9. During the early dynasties, Chinese diviners used oracle bones A) as objects of art. B) as drugs to cure people's diseases. C) to predict the future and answer questions. D) to record manuals of etiquette. 10. The concept dao means A) the original force of the cosmos, an eternal and unchanging principle that governs all the workings of the world. B) passive and yielding forces that exist only in water and empty spaces. C) natural laws such as those defined by modern physics. D) living according to ren, li, and xiao.