Geography
Indian Culture
Aryan Religion
Social Structure
Hinduism/Buddhism
100
A large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
Thick sturdy walls, straight grid pattern streets, bathrooms and toilets, city-wide sewerage system and trash chutes?
What are some of the advanced features that cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa had in ancient India?
100
the Ramayana
What is an epic poem that deals with the moral issue of loyalty?
100
A fixed social class into which a person is born.
What is a caste?
100
A Hindus ultimate goal. A liberation from reincarnation.
What is Moksha?
200
A main river and all the other streams that drain into it.
What is a river system?
200
They had advanced knowledge of construction that allowed them to design and build specialty buildings and they had improved farming techniques to the point that storage facilities were needed for the surplus.
What are two conclusions you can draw about the existence of granaries?
200
the Mahabharata
What is an epic poem that deals with the moral issue of conflict?
200
The highest varna made up of priests.
What are Brahmins?
200
The goal of following the Eightfold Path.
What is Nirvana?
300
A fortified area that is usually built on raised ground.
What is a citadel?
300
Some of the possible explanations as to why the ancient Indian civilization disappeared.
What are mosquito's spread disease, they cut all the trees that left them no wood for building or fires, severe floods may have swept it away, cattle may have overgrazed, the climate may have changed causing a drought or foreigners may have invaded?
300
A collection of hundreds of sacred hymns.
What are the Vedas?
300
Rulers and warriors
Who makes up the Kshatriyas caste?
300
The supreme spiritual force.
Who is the Brahman?
400
Indus River Valley
Where did the first civilization of India arise?
400
Explanations as to why the ancient Indian civilization disappeared.
What are nomadic warriors, original inhabitants or nomadic herders? Scholars like nomadic herders the best
400
The priest that performed the religious rituals in Brahmanism.
Who is the Brahmin?
400
Landowners, bankers and merchants.
Who makes up the Vaishyas caste?
400
The Buddha did this to achieve enlightenment?
What is meditation?
500
The geographical feature that separates the subcontinent of India from the rest of Asia.
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
500
They changed from being herders to farmers
How did the Aryan way of life change after they migrated eastward to the Ganges plain?
500
The language that the priests used to sing, or chant, the Vedas.
What is Sanskrit?
500
Farmers, laborers and servants are in this caste.
What are the Sudras?
500
Hinduisms openness and flexibility to other religious ideas.
What helped the spread of Hinduism?
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