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A building where grain is stored in ancient cities.
What is a granary?
Hindus believe time moves in this shape, not in a straight line.
What is a cycle?
The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth in Buddhism.
What is samsara?
He unified India with a strong army before Ashoka.
Who is Chan
Who is Chandragupta?
This river is considered sacred by millions in India.
What is the Ganges River?
The four major social classes in Hindu society.
What are the varnas?
Name one common dharma action (moral duty) in Hinduism.
What is truthfulness, nonviolence, kindness, or self-control?
The Buddha taught “Right Speech,” which means doing this.
What is speaking kindly and truthfully?
After this bloody event, Ashoka became a Buddhist.
What is the Battle of Kalinga?
A major river that brings heavy monsoon rain and sometimes floods in the northeast.
What is the Brahmaputra River?
The religion based on the teachings of the Buddha.
What is Buddhism
Brahman can appear as many of these.
What are gods and goddesses?
Siddhartha first questioned life after seeing these three things.
What are old age, sickness, and death?
One method Ashoka used to spread Buddhism.
What are edicts, roads, hospitals, or missionaries?
These mountains protect India from northern invaders.
What are the Hindu Kush?
A religious journey made to a holy place.
What is a pilgrimage?
One of the four paths to escape samsara: focusing the mind through quiet and breathing.
What is meditation?
Giving food or money to the poor.
What are alms?
This famous Gupta university taught math, science, and philosophy.
What is the University of Nalanda?
China’s rice-growing region with warm, wet conditions.
What is the Chang Jiang Basin?
A ruler’s official command carved on pillars or stones.
What is an edict?
This great Hindu epic teaches themes of duty, loyalty, and good vs. evil.
What is the Maha...
What is the Mahabharata?
The final goal in Buddhism — peace and freedom from suffering.
What is Nirvana?
Two major mathematical achievements of the Gupta Empire.
What are the concept of zero and the decimal system?
This fertile region in northern China was important for early farming civilizations.
What is the North China Plain?