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Chapter 2
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What Am I?
5
Directions: After each sentence, write the correct word from the Word
Bank that the sentence describes.
Word Bank
alabaster
Harappa
silt
clay
Indus River
tablet
cotton
irrigate
tower
district
patio
transport
grain
pictogram
wall
1) I am a word that means to bring water to fields and crops. _______________
2) I begin in the Himalayas. _______________
3) Indians were the first people to make cloth out of me. _______________
4) I am a flat writing pad made of clay. _______________
5) City planners divided their cities into different areas like me. _______________
6) I am a word that means to move from one place to another. _______________
7) People in early Indian cities made windows out of me to let light in.
_______________
8) I am a rich layer of soil left behind after a flood. _______________
9) The first Indian civilization began with two cities—Mohenjo-Daro and me.
_______________
10) I surrounded and protected early Indian cities. _______________
11) I am an inner room open to the sky. _______________
12) I helped people see if any enemies were coming. _______________
13) I am a figure that tells a story. _______________
14) Indians made pipes out of me to drain away dirty water. _______________
15) The people of the Indus River Valley grew me in their rich soil.
_______________
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Chapter 2
Activity
Identifying Places and Terms
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Directions: Match each item in Column A with a detail in Column B.
Write the letter of each correct answer on the line.
Column A
______ 1) fertile
Column B
a) a large piece of land that is somewhat smaller than
a continent
______ 2) pass
b) wind blows over its warm waters in the summer
______ 3) Bay of Bengal
c) land surrounded by water on three sides
______ 4) Khyber Pass
d) one of the great rivers India depends on for water
______ 5) subcontinent
e) able to grow crops, like the land in northern India
______ 6) Ganges
f) the best known passage into India
______ 7) geography
______ 8) peninsula
______ 9) Indus River Valley
______10) summer
______11) monsoon
______12) Indian Ocean
______13) Himalayas
g) continent of which India is a part
h) the dry season in India
i) one of the mountain ranges that stands at India’s
northern edge
j) an open place in the mountains
k) where India’s first great civilization began
l) deals with land, weather, bodies of water, and plant
and animal life
______14) Asia
m) the rainy season in India
______15) winter
n) along with two mountain ranges, separates India
from the rest of Asia
o) seasonal winds
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Chapter 2
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Hinduism Crossword
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1
2
4
3
6
5
7
8
10
9
12
11
13
Across
1) Events that keep happening, one after
another
3) A song of praise
4) Hindu name for God
8) Growth of something
9) Hindu god who preserves
11) Oldest Veda
12) Number of main Hindu castes
13) “Books of knowledge”
Down
2) To make something
3) Ancient Indian religion
4) Highest Hindu caste
5) Hindu god who destroys
6) Having to do with a belief in a higher being
7) Hindus wrote holy writings in this
language
10) To throw out of something
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Write the Correct Answer
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Directions: Fill in each blank with the correct term. Choose your
answer from the terms in parentheses.
1) The Chinese began to build cities near the _______________(Yangtze,
Yellow, Gobi) River about 2000 B.C.
2) The Tibetan mountain _______________(plateau, range, desert) is a
flat area in western China that rises above the nearby land.
3) The Yangtze River flows through _______________(eastern, northern,
southern) China.
4) We sometimes call the Yellow River _______________ (Huang Ho,
Shang, “China’s Sorrow”) because its floods have destroyed Chinese
cities and farms.
5) The Chinese built the _______________ (Great Wall, Grand Canal,
Shang dynasty) to join the Yellow and the Yangtze Rivers.
6) The Great Wall protected China from _______________ (floods,
invaders, disease).
7) The _______________ (Tibetan plateau, Gobi Desert, Himalayan
mountain range) lies to the north of China.
8) _______________ (Invasions, Civilization, Farming) began in China
more than 8,000 years ago.
9) China’s _______________ (geography, Grand Canal, Great Wall)
isolated it from the rest of the world in ancient times.
10) Because the Yangtze River is _______________ (long, shallow, deep), it
hardly ever floods.
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Chapter 2
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Ancient China True or False
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Directions: Read each sentence. Write T if the statement is true or F if
it is false.
______ 1) Because the Yellow River is shallow, it often floods.
______ 2) Chinese rulers began to build the Grand Canal about 5,000 years ago.
______ 3) To invade means to attack or march into another country.
______ 4) Farming began in China more than 8,000 years ago.
______ 5) China’s geography isolated it in ancient times.
______ 6) The Yellow River is the longest and most important river in China.
______ 7) A canal is a flat area that rises above the land close by.
______ 8) The Yangtze River has been one of China’s main trade routes since
ancient times.
______ 9) People have lived in China for thousands of years.
______ 10) No river flows from south to north in China.
______ 11) To help build the Grand Canal, Chinese rulers forced all men between
the ages of 15 and 50 to work on the canal.
______ 12) The Great Wall of China was formed when two rulers joined together
all the walls along China’s northern and western frontier.
______ 13) Ancient China had much contact with the rest of the world.
______ 14) The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers are joined together by the Tibetan
mountain plateau.
______ 15) “China’s Sorrow” is another name for the Great Wall of China.
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Shang Dynasty Multiple Choice
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Directions: Circle the letter of the answer that correctly completes
each sentence.
1) A _______ is a family that rules a country over a long period of time.
a. noble
b. dynasty
c. scribe
d. society
2) Chinese _______ made beautiful objects out of ivory and jade for
everyday use.
a. nobles
b. characters c. scribes
d. artisans
3) Unlike the people of ancient India, the ancient Chinese built their
homes out of _______ .
a. brick
b. clay
c. jade
d. wood
4) During the Shang dynasty, the Chinese developed writing which
included pictograms and _______ .
a. spirits
b. scribes
c. characters d. millets
5) Most of the common people in China were _______ .
a. artisans
b. nobles
c. farmers
d. scribes
6) _______ is the name for the tusks, or teeth, of animals like the elephant
and the walrus.
a. Ivory
b. Jade
c. Dynasty
d. Millet
7) A group of people whose members live together for the good of all is a
_______ .
a. dynasty
b. society
c. symbol
d. noble
8) The Shang dynasty may have collapsed because poor people welcomed
_______ .
a. scribes
b. characters c. nobles
d. invaders
9) The Shang people believed that the _______ controlled all things.
a. nobles
b. scribes
c. gods
d. invaders
10) _______ worship was an important part of Shang religion.
a. character
b. ancestor
c. dynasty
d. artisan
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