Chapter 5: Ancient India

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

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.

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

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 India’s 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 Valley’s 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 Valley’s earliest civilization.

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9. After the early Indus Valley civilization crumbled, what new group of people took power and settled in the Indus Valley?

10.Most of what we know about this new group of people comes from ______________.

11.How did the culture and government of the early Indus Valley differ from the new group that settled there?

12.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.

Complete the Chart BelowHarappan Civilization

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Complete the Chart BelowAryan Civilization

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