Trivia
Trivia
Trivia
Trivia
Trivia
100
Person who travels to a religious shrine or site
Who is a pilgrim
100
The percentage of India's rain comes from the monsoons
What is 80%
100
Religion and ________ were closely related in Harappan society.
What is politics
100
Process by which wealthy widows threw themselves in the fire which cremated their husbands
What is suttee
100
Written language of ancient India
What is Sanskrit
200
Social group that a person is born into and cannot change
What is a caste
200
The tallest mountain in the world
What is Mt. Everest
200
The creater god in Hinduism was born out of his bellybutton
What is Vishnu
200
Over 90% of marriages in India today are
What is arranged marriages
200
Animal considered to be sacred by many Indians
What is cow
300
Indian prince
Who is a raja
300
The group of people from South and Central Asia who invaded ancient India
Who are the Aryans
300
The Indians were the first to develop the idea of which numeral
What is zero
300
List of Buddhist beliefs displayed on stone during the Mauryan Empire
What is Edicts of Asoka
300
The reason we know little about the Harappan society
What is they left no written records
400
Strong wind that blows one direction in the summer and the opposite direction in the winter
What is monsoon
400
_______ served as the capital of the Mauryan Empire.
What is Pataliputra
400
The result of bad karma
What is negative next life
400
The reason that the Gupta Empire was easier to govern
What is it was much smaller than the Mauryan Empire
400
The river valley in which India's first civilizations appeared
What is Indus
500
Religious leader and spiritual guide
What is a guru
500
The material out of which most Harappan pottery was made
What is terra cotta
500
Girls in ancient India were known to marry as early as ____
What is 13
500
Indian work similar to Aesop's fables
What is Panchantantra
500
Indian families lived together in _______ _______ units.
What is extended family
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