Indian Geography
The Ocean southwest of the Indian subcontinent.
The time period between 1500-500 BC.
What is the Vedic Period?
The religion established during the Vedic Period.
What is Hinduism?
The religion established by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
This city gave its name to the first Ancient Indian civilization.
What was Harappa?
The river running in the northwest of the subcontinent.
What is the Indus River?
The written language developed during the Vedic Period.
What is Sanskrit?
The core principle of Hinduism.
What is Brahman?
The title meaning "Enlightened One".
What is the Buddha?
This city, along with Harappa, was one of the largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization.
What was Mohenjo-daro?
The mountains in the northwest of the subcontinent.
What are the Hindu Kush?
The collection of stories, prayers, and rituals written during the Vedic Period.
What are the Vedas?
What is reincarnation?
The religion that focuses on nonviolence and does not believe in gods.
What is Jainism?
This empire was founded after Alexander the Great destabilized western India.
What was the Mauryan Empire?
The river running in the northeast of the subcontinent.
What is the Ganges River?
The oldest of the four Vedas.
What is the Rig Veda?
The energy generated by good and bad actions.
What is karma?
The concept of perfect peace.
What is nirvana?
The capital of the Mauryan Empire.
What was Pataliputra?
The mountains in the northeast of the subcontinent.
What are the Himalayas?
The social caste system established during the Vedic Period.
What is the Varna system?
Personal duty according to one's varna and jati.
What is dharma?
The Buddhist belief that outlines how to achieve enlightenment.
What is the Eightfold Path?
The empire founded by Samudragupta in AD 268.
What was the Gupta Empire?