Ancient India
The Indus River Valley
In Hinduism, everybody has a what that is their essential self?
Atman
Who was the founder of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Gautama
What language was developed by the Ancient Mesopotamians?
Cuneiform
What two rivers were important in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What were the two main cities in Ancient India?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Good Karma
What does "Buddha" mean?
The enlightened one
What system of writing, developed in Egypt, uses pictures to represent words and ideas?
Hieroglyphics
What was the most Important River in Ancient Egypt
The Nile
What animal was venerated in ancient India just like it is today?
The Cow
When Hindus gather enough Karma, they can achieve what which means, "oneness with the universe"?
Moksha
What are The 4 Noble Truths?
Life is suffering, suffering is a result of bad choices, suffering ends by overcoming suffering, this can only by done by the Eightfold Path
The Aryans of Ancient India developed what system of writing that allowed them to write some of humanities first books?
Sanskrit
What was the main technological advancement made in ancient Mesopotamia?
Farming
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were abandoned and were taken over by which new group of people?
The Aryans
What system in Hinduism places people in social classes that they can't get out of and is tied to their Karma?
The Caste System
What is the Eightfold Path
Right Views
Right Aspirations
Right Speech
Right Conduct
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Contemplation
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are books written in which language?
Sanskrit
Ra
The Aryans had Four main classes of society. What were they?
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras
What were the three main gods of Buddhism?
Vishnu, Sheva, and Shakti
Despite starting in India, Buddhism not popular there. Where is Buddhism more popular?
China, Korea, Japan
The Rosetta Stone allowed archaeologists to read which language?
Hieroglyphics
What structures were built by the Egyptians to house their dead?
Pyramids