Geography
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This small country is located North of India.
What is Nepal?
This is the place where Hindu people do their daily worship.
What is their homes?
This man founded Buddhism.
Siddhartha Gautama
Archeologists discovered remains of two Indus River Valley civilization cities. Name one!
What are Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
What is peace?
This is the the river where the first ancient civilizations of India were located.
Indus
This is the most important of all the gods.
Who is Brahman?
Buddha meditated to find an end to this.
What is suffering?
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Chandragupta Maurya was said to become king of Magadha with the help of this person.
Who is a teacher? (Kautilya)
Brahmans typically held these 2 jobs.
What are Priests and teachers
This river in eastern India empties out into the Bay of Bengal/Indian Ocean.
Ganges River
The idea that if you live a good life, good things will happen to you.
Karma
This is the state of perfect wisdom.
What is enlightenmet?
This is the language in which the Vedas, the sacred texts of Hinduism, were composed, making it directly linked to the Vedic Age, a period in ancient Indian history where these texts were orally transmitted and later written down.
What is Sanskrit?
Name one mathematical advancement made by the Gupta Empire.
What are
decimal system
the number 0
trigonometry
pi
The weather pattern bringing strong rains in the summer and dry air in the fall.
monsoon
The final goal of the 4 goals of Hinduism.
What is moksha?
Siddhartha was born in this modern day country.
Nepal
Put these periods of time in chronological order:
Vedic Age
Gupta Empire
Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro Civilization
Mauryan Empire
What is
Harappan/Monhenjo-Daro Civilization
Vedic Age
Mauryan Empire
Gupta Empire
These are the four religions that came out of ancient India.
What are Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and Sikhism?
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Besides India, these are 3 other countries that the Himalayas run through.
What are Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan?
This is the first goal of doing what is right, or a person's duty.
What is Dharma?
These are religious communities where Buddhists could/can stay to study and meditate.
What are monasteries?
When Asoka ruled the Mauryan Empire, he spread this ideas of this religion.
What is Buddhism?
Buddhism spread all across India and then to this small country to the south of India.
What is Sri Lanka?