Asian River Valleys Jeopardy

Asian River Valleys Jeopardy

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Religion

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Daily Life

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Vocab for 100

• These two Asian religions believe in reincarnation.

• What are Hinduism and Buddhism?

vocab for 200

• The term that describes the layout of the streets in Mohenjo-Daro.

• What is a grid?

Vocab for 300

• The term for the type of government during Emperor Qin’s reign.

• What is Legalism?

What Legalists believed was necessary to offset people’s

tendency to be selfish.

What are strict rules?

Vocab for 400

• The Hindu name for the caste of warriors and government officials.

• What is kshatriya?

People for 100

• This emperor started construction of the Great Wall of China.

• Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?

People for 200

• Ashoka encouraged people to adopt this religion.

• What is Buddhism?

People for 300

• This group introduced Hinduism to India.

• Who are the Aryans?

People for 400

• Emperor Qin had people killed if they taught this.

• What is Confucianism?

Religion for 100

• This philosophy encourages people to live simply and abide by the laws of nature.

• What is Taoism?

Religion for 200

• This philosophy encouraged people to respect their elders and government officials.

• What is Confucianism?

Religion for 300

• This was the name of the Hindu holy book.

• What is the Rig Veda?

Religion for 400

• Buddhists believed that this led to suffering.

• What is greed?

Contributions for 100

• The Chinese used gunpowder to make this.

• What are rockets and/or fireworks?

Contributions for 200

• The reason the printing press was more useful in Europe than it was for the Chinese.

• It would have been difficult to make a printing press with all 5000 Chinese characters; European alphabet had fewer (approximately 26) characters.

Contributions for 300

• Emperor Qin standardized the way to measure this.

• What is weight, distance, or money?

Contributions for 400

• A Chinese umbrella revealed this fact about a person.

• What is his/her social class?

Daily Life for 100

• This caste did cleaning jobs, such as collecting garbage

• Who were the Untouchables?

.This was believed to be WHY someone was an Untouchable.

What is they had done something bad in their previous life?

Daily Life for 200

• This phrase means “being able to change your class in society.” People in the caste system had little of this.

• What is social mobility?

Daily Life for 300

• This part of Mohenjo-Daro was probably used for religious ceremonies.

• What is the Great Bath?

Daily Life for 400• Three reasons the caste system existed

for 2000 years without being challenged.

• Upper class had education and military power.

• Lower classes too poor, weak, uneducated to revolt

• People wanted to be reincarnated into a higher caste