Chapter 5: Ancient India

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Chapter 5 Ancient India
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Think-Pair-Share8 Minutes

• Find one partner
• Use the quiz you created over Chapter 5, section
  1 to review your partner
• Divide the time into 3 minutes a piece
• Take out an index card and label correctly

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Chapter 5-1 Reading and Note-taking Quiz

• You may use your notes to complete this quiz.
• You do not have to write the questions. Write
  only the answers on the note card.
• Turn the note card into the appropriate pocket
• Complete two separate G.R.A.P.E.S. charts for the
  Indus Valley Civilizations. Complete this in
  your composition book. It may be done on the same
  page.

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Chapter 5 Terms and People

• Subcontinent
• Monsoons
• Sanskrit
• ___________________
• Caste System
• Hinduism
• Reincarnation
• Karma
• Jainism
• nonviolence

• Fasting
• Meditation
• The Buddha
• Buddhism
• Nirvana
• Missionaries
• ______________________
• Candragupta Maurya
• Asoka
• Candra Gupta II
• ______________________
• Metallurgy
• Alloys
• Hindu-Arabic Numerals
• Inoculation
• Astronomy

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5-1Reading and Note-taking Quiz

1. Because of its characteristics, geographers call
   India a ________.
2. What is the name of the major landform that
   separates India from the rest of Asia?
3. What causes Indias dry humid and/or wet climates
   throughout the year?
4. Like Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Indus Valley
   flooded making it fertile. What civilization
   settled in the Indus Valley?
5. What two large, early cities developed in the
   Indus Valley?
6. What characteristics suggest that the Indus
   Valleys 1st cities were well planned out?
7. What caused the end of the early Indus Valley
   civilization?
8. List at least 3 achievements of the Indus
   Valleys earliest civilization.
12. After the early Indus Valley civilization
    crumbled, what new group of people took power and
    settled in the Indus Valley?
13. Most of what we know about this new group of
    people comes from ______________.
14. How did the culture and government of the early
    Indus Valley differ from the new group that
    settled there?
15. The new group from Central Asia formed the most
    important language of ancient India called
    _______________. Though it is no longer spoken,
    it is the root of many South Asian languages.

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Complete the Chart BelowHarappan Civilization
G.___________
R. __________
A. __________
P. __________
E. __________
S. __________
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Complete the Chart BelowAryan Civilization
G.__________
R. __________
A. __________
P. __________
E. __________
S. __________