Geography
The northeastern border of India
What are the Himalayas?
Sidhartha Gautama
Who is the prince who became the Buddha, the Enlightened One?
What is Nirvana?
Karma
What is the effects of good or bad actions that determine one's next life?
The cycle of rebirth that allows one to move up or down the caste system
What is reincarnation?
The two main rivers in Ancient India
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
This emperor converted to Buddhism
Who is Ashoka?
The universal spirit in Hinduism that everything is a part of
What is Brahman?
A seasonal shift in the wind's direction, bringing a rainy or dry season
What is a monsoon?
The Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the Middle Way all teach to have this kind of life
What is a balanced life?
A large area of land that is smaller than a continent, but separated by natural barriers from the rest of the continent
What is a subcontinent?
The emperor who started the Mauryan Empire
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
The release from the reincarnation cycle
What is moksha?
The religious duties one is supposed to follow
What is dharma?
The highest level in the caste system
What is Brahmin, who are the priests, teachers, and scholars?
Two of the modern countries that used to be a part of Ancient India
What are Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Maldive Islands?
The emperor who started the Gupta Empire
Who is Chandra Gupta
The three main Hindu gods
Who are Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer?
What each level in the caste system is called
What is a varna?
The lowest level of the caste system
What is Dalits? (Or Pariahs or Untouchables)
The Ganges River flows into the Ganges Delta and then out into this body of water
What is the Bay of Bengal?
The group that invaded India and helped end the Gupta Empire and its Golden Age
Who are the Huns?
The people who traveled south into India and started Hinduism and wrote the Vedas
Who are the Aryans?
The soul in each person that gets reincarnated
What is the atman?
A major religious difference between Hinduism and Buddhism
What is Buddhism doesn't have a caste system; in Buddhism one can attain enlightenment in their current life, etc.