Geography
The large mountain range to the north of India.
What is the Himalayas?
This religion believes that there is one main god, Brahman.
What is Hinduism?
A kingdom or dynasty which becomes very powerful and controls vast areas of land well-beyond its borders.
What is an Empire?
These allowed the economy of Ancient India to thrive as they assisted with trading.
What are roads?
The system that Ancient India divided their citizens into.
What is a caste system?
A name India is called due to it being separated from the rest of Asia.
What is a Sub-continent?
This religion focused on the concepts of suffering and giving up selfish desires.
What is Buddhism?
This Empire was first one to control Ancient India.
Who is the Maurya Empire?
What is subsistence farming?
This level included the priests and teachers.
What is the Brahmins?
the river to the Northwest that the ancient Indian civilization started to settle around.
What is the Indus River?
This religion had an eightfold path for people to follow in order to reach a certain state.
What is Buddhism
The grandson of Chandragupta, he became the greatest ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty, but rejected violence after the Battle of Kalinga.
Who is Ashoka?
This number was added to their number system.
What is zero?
This level included rulers and warriors.
What is the Kshatriyas?
This causes the rivers to flood and the ground to be fertile in India during the months of June to September.
What is Monsoon Season?
The belief that one's soul can be reborn into another being after death.
What is Reincarnation?
This empire had local leaders make most of the decisions.
What is the Gupta Empire?
This language was developed in Ancient India.
What is Sanskrit?
This level included landowners, bankers and merchants.
What is the Vaishyas?
The raised area of land in southern India.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
A state of blissful peace without desire or suffering.
What is Nirvana?
The system of offices that carry out government rules.
What is Bureaucracy?
Ancient India was the first to use this type of mathematics.
What is Calculus?
This level was later added to the system. The people in the level were considered lower than the the low. They were also considered to do un-pure work.
Who are the Untoouchables?