| Geography of Ancient India | Early Indian Civilization | Beginning of Hinduism | Beginning of Buddhism | True or False |
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100What are the Himalayas?
The world's largest mountain range.
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100What is Mohenjo-Daro?
A city of the ancient Harrapan civilization.
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100What are Vedas?
"Books of Knowledge" with sacred songs in them
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100What is a monk?
A man who devotes his life to a religious group.
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100What is False?
The Nile River begins in the Himalayas and crosses desertlike plains before reaching the Arabian Sea.
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200What is a subcontinent?
A large landmass that is geographically separate from the rest of the continent.
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200What is a citadel
A walled fort that protects the city.
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200What is reincarnation?
The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
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200What is the Four Noble Truths?
In Buddhism, the principles that rule life and promises an end to suffering.
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200What is True?
Sesame is a seed used for cooking and making oil.
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300What is the Indus River?
A river that flows from Tibet, through the Himalayas and Hindu Kush into the Arabain Sea.
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300What is Sanskrit?
An ancient Indian language
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300What is karma?
What a person does in one life influences the caste that person will be born into in the next life.
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300What is the Eightfold Path
In Buddhism, the basic rules of behavior and belief leading to an end of suffering.
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300What is True?
Little is known about Harappan civilization because its writing system has not yet been figured out.
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400What is the Indus Plain?
A vast, dry region south of the Himalayas
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400What is Harappa?
A city of the Ancient Harappan Village, 2500-1600 B.C.
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400What is dharma?
"laws and duties" of the Hindu religion
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400Who was Asoka?
King who united India and made Buddhism the state religion.
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400What is False?
Siddhartha Gautama is the prince who founded Hinduism.
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500What is irrigation canals?
Farmers built these to bring water from the river to their crops.
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500Who are Aryans?
These people migrated to the Indian subcontinent about 1500 B.C.
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500What is a shrine?
A special religious place
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500What is the Middle Way?
In Buddhism, a way of life, neither too strict nor too easy that results from the Eightfold Path
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500What is False?
Today Hinduism has only 1 million followers.
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