Harappans and Aryans
What is the most precise description of where the Harappan civilization was located?
The Indus River Valley
Asoka was the grandson of what ruler?
Chandragupta Maurya
The belief in this principle helps guide a Hindu's actions and conduct to determine the kind of life they will be born into.
Karma
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
The Buddha
The social hierarchy that developed in ancient India was called the ________.
Caste System
The Harappan civilization used _______ to help measure their trade goods.
Standard weights and measurements
Some pillars built by this Indian leader carved with laws and cultural norms still stand today. Who built them?
Asoka
This is the belief that the soul is eternal and will be reborn into different bodies over different life cycles.
Reincarnation
To Buddhists, the Buddha's teachings are divine law. What is divine law also known as?
Dharma
The modern country of India is a subcontinent. What is a subcontinent?
A landmass that was once an island before attaching to another continent.
What was the language spoken by the Aryans?
Sanskrit
Rulers of the Gupta Empire returned to _______ as the main religion of India.
Hinduism
The god Shiva is associated with this series of exercises to help a person achieve spiritual insight.
Yoga
Siddhartha Gautama was a prince from an area that is today what modern country?
Nepal
In mathematics, ancient Indians were the first to use _______, which has allowed for many technological advances in the modern world.
The number zero
The Aryans migrated into India through what two mountain ranges?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains
India's great epic poems like the Ramayana were finally written down during the period of what Empire of India?
Gupta
Vishnu
How long did the Buddha meditate for before reaching nirvana?
Seven weeks (49 days)
What is Ayurveda?
An alternative form of healing.
What religion first recorded their rituals and hymns in sacred texts known as the Vedas?
Brahmanism
What was the name of the original kingdom that Chandragupta Maurya ruled before expanding his empire?
Magadha
Lakshmi
What is the second of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths?
That suffering is caused by desire, material desire, or ignorance
Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply influenced by this 20th century (1900s) Indian practitioner of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi