Geography
Aryans settled along this river and Hinduism started here.
What is the Indus River?
These people were the founders of Hinduism
what is the Aryans?
Buddhism’s sacred text
What is Tripitaka, or Three Baskets of Wisdom?
Who is Chandragupta Maura?
He was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire.
Who is Chandragupta II?
Most Holy River in India that the Indians put all the ashes from dead family members. They also put all the feces from animals and people in this river.
What is the Ganges River?
The Rebirth in a different form after death that continues until soul achieves union with Brahman
What is reincarnation?
The religion did Siddhartha Gautama practiced for 6 years before creating Buddhism
What is ascetic?
The emperor that was ruthless that changed and then made the Rock and Pillar Edicts
Who is Ashoka?
the number they created
What is zero?
The mountain range that protected against invaders, highest mountains in India
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
Rigid social class systems that by birth people are ranked by occupation. ONLY through reincarnation can you go up/down this system
What is the Caste System
He lived and taught in the region around the border of modern-day Nepal and India sometime between the 6th to 4th century B.C.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The pillars that Ashoka Created
What are the Rock and Pillar Edicts?
the sculp that someone carved into the wall of the Hindu god Vishnu in a boar-headed incarnation
What is the Udayagiri Caves?
A Seasonal wind that brings an abundance of rain when it blows from south to north
What is a monsoon?
This sacred text that had Hymns and rituals that were recorded over a long time by different authors in Sanskrit
What is the Vedas?
The amount of god(s) does Buddhism worship
What is none?
This ended after Ashoka died
What is the Mauryan Golden age?
This showed that the Gupta had the technology and power to mass-produce them, and the power needed to get merchants to use them.
What is coin currency?
the mountain range that was worshiped as the protectors and nurturers of the people
What is the Hindu Kush Mountain Range.
Amount of smaller gods that form to be one big god
What is millions?
This path that describes how one should act to eliminate desire and thus suffering. This Path is the moral code of conduct for Buddhists
What is the Eightfold path?
This person made Many of the monuments that have survived more than 2200 years to the present day.
Who was Ashoka?
These caves are located in Maharashtra. There are a total of 30 Caves altogether
What are the Ajanta Caves