Ancient India 1
A large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is subcontinent.
The requirement for earning good karma.
What is living one's dharma?
The Vedic Age is named after these sacred texts of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
India is part of this continent.
What is Asia?
The origin location of India.
What is the Indus River valley?
The empire rose after the collapse of the Maurya Empire.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The founder of Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
This serves as a barrier separating India from China.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
A special building to hold grain.
What is a granary?
These nomads brought their language, culture, and religion to the Indus River valley.
Who are the Aryans?
The absence of these may indicate that Harappa did not have a social hierarchy or organized religion.
What are palaces and temples?
One of the greatest advances in mathematics was this counting system based on units of ten.
What is the decimal system?
The social hierarchy of ancient India
What is the caste system?
The highest on the caste system.
Who are the Brahmins?
A collection of hundreds, even thousands, of sacred hymns.
What is Veda?
This determines the form into which a person is reincarnated.
What is karma?
What two mathematical accomplishments of ancient India are still in use worldwide today?
What are zero and Hindu-Arabic numerals?
Multiplication and division transformed mathematics with the introduction of this numeral?
What is zero?
These people had no place in society.
Who are the Dalits or Untouchables?
Hindus believed in the rebirth of this.
What is the soul?
These people left their homes to live in the forest, to think, and to talk about religious ideas.
What is a guru?
The great Indian epics like the Ramayana are written in this language.
What is Sanskrit?
The effect of a person's actions in this and in previous lives.
What is Karma?
The science that deals with the extraction of metal from ore and using it to create useful objects.
What is metallurgy?
The time period in which a person had to remain in a particular caste.
What is a lifetime?
These are members of the Vaisya caste.
What are merchants (farmers)?
This Mauryan emperor converted to Buddhism and was responsible for constructing roads and spreading the Buddhist faith throughout Asia.
Who is Asoka?
The Shudra caste consisted mainly of these.
What are unskilled workers (servants)?
A system of offices that carries out government rules and regulations.
What is bureaucracy?
A willingness to respect different beliefs and customs.
What is tolerance?