Chapter 05 Quiz B with Explanations

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. What was a major reason for the growth of religious alternatives to the Vedic tradition around the sixth century B.C.E.?

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. Which Indian religion was based on the idea of ending human suffering?

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. Buddhism spread in the third century B.C.E. due in part to the royal patronage of the Mauryan ruler

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. Kautilya's work on government encouraged rulers to

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. In the period from 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. India was linked commercially with China through

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. What was one important calculation or discovery made by ancient Indian mathematicians?

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. During the classical era, how was scholarship in China different from scholarship in India?

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. According to Confucius, what was the ideal Chinese state?

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. Which Chinese philosopher in the third century B.C.E. believed that people acted in their own selfish interests and that strict laws were necessary to control them?

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. Lord Shang Yang introduced what philosophy to the Chinese state of Qin in the fourth century B.C.E.?

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. What major reform made by Shi Huangdi helped unify China in the third century B.C.E.?

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. How was Shi Huangdi's view of social diversity different from that of the Persians?

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. Liu Bang founded which new dynasty in 206 B.C.E.?

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. What was an important theme in the Han historian Sima Qian's writing?

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. What impact did the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods have on the development of Chinese culture from 500 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.?

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. Which Athenian philosopher was critical of the democratic system?

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. Teachers of rhetoric in classical Athens were called

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. What was the significance of the fifth century B.C.E. histories written by Herodotus and Thucydides?

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. The blending of Greek and local cultures is known as

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. What were the two major states carved out of Alexander's empire following his death in 323 B.C.E.?

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. What was the significance of cities, like Alexandria, established by Greeks during the Hellenistic age?

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. How was philosophy different in the Hellenistic era than the Classical period?

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. What do historians call the group of cultures that developed alongside the Greeks in western Eurasia during the first millennium B.C.E.?

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. The discovery of "bog people" by archeologists indicated that Celtic religious practices included

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