Indian geography
What is the tallest mountain range in the world?
The Himalaya Mountains
In India, this animal is sacred and is never eaten or killed.
Cows
A sari is a single length of cloth most often made out of _______________ but sometimes made of expensive __________________.
cotton, silk
This was built to keep raiders from coming into the country and stealing their resources.
The Great Wall of China
Who is the Indian god with the elephant head?
Ganesha
What are the three seasons in India?
Hot, wet, dry
What are the three primary Hindu gods?
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
What is the ancient Indian division of people into different classes called?
The caste system
The first agriculture in China started along these two rivers.
The Yellow River and Yangtze River.
Who is the Indian goddess that represents an extinct river and is the goddess of knowledge and music.
Saraswati
When people die in India, their remains are often cremated and scttered in this sacred river.
The Ganges River
The belief that souls travel from boby to body in different lifetimes is called _________________.
Reincarnation (Samsara)
Why did China develop seperately from the rest of the world?
It is isolated by large mountains like the Himalayas in the south and west, The Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in the north, and the Pacific Ocean in the East.
What was found in Chin Shi Huang's (first emperor of China) tomb?
Terracotta warriors.
Who is the mother of Ganesha and the wife of Shiva?
Parvati
This desert is in the west of India.
The Thar Desert
This is the ancient Indian law of cause and effect where you get positive rewards for positive actions and negative results for negative actions.
Karma
How did Nuwa, the chinese goddess, create humans?
She made the nobels out of yellow clay, then she dragged a rope in the clay and made more people. She got excited and flung the rope around and the many blobs became the commoners. When it rained and deformed the clay, these became the sick and deformed people.
This symbol represents that there are opposite forces in everything.
Yin Yang
This river is where ancient Indian civilization began.
The Indus River.
Before he was called the Buddah, his name was prince ___________.
Siddhartha
What is the 8-fold path?
A way to live your life if you want to create happiness and kindness within yourself and with others. Right understanding, right speech, Right Livelihood, right concentration, right Mindfulness, right effort, right action, right intention.
Confucius taught that people should honor their ___________.
parents