Geography
The Indian subcontinent is part of the this continent.
What is Asia?
The third largest and oldest religion, after Christianity and Islam.
What is Hinduism?
This was one of the first works written in sankirts.
What are Vedas?
The first ruler of the first empire in India around 325 B.C.E.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
He was chosen to rule after his father ruled for 10 years.
Who is Samudragupta?
The Himalayas has the tallest mountain system.
What is Mount Everest?
The people of Hinduism believed in the rebirth of the soul.
What is reincarnation?
The Indic- Languages was part of this larger languages of family.
What is the Indo- European family of languages?
He helped the Mauryan Empire grow and was the grandson of Chandragupta.
Who is Ashoka?
This group of people arose along trade routes.
What are pilgrims?
Seasonal winds that have a big effect on the weather in India.
What are Monsoons?
A religious teacher that founded a new religion called Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The Indic and Dravidian languages exchanged their beliefs and traditions to make this culture.
What is Vedic?
Ashoka had thousands of Buddhist shrines shaped like domes?
What is a Stupa?
These subjects were most jobs to the people of the Gupta Empire.
What are the Arts, Architecture, Mathematics and Medicine?
At their peak these cities had over 35,000 residents.
What is Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
A very key value to Jainism that meant practicing non-violence towards living things.
What is ahimsa?
Texts and Sanskrits were passed through this.
What is an Oral Tradition?
After Ashoka Died in this year, the Mauryan Empire started to decline.
What is 232 B.C.E.?
These places were the most important places for rulers.
What are palaces and temples?
These people used well planned grids to build streets and oven baked bricks to build their houses.
Who are the Indus Valley people?
Jainism arose about ..... B.C.E.
What is 500 B.C.E.?
Texts in Dravidian include these two languages.
What are Tamil and Telugu?
Ashoka was the first ruler to promote this religion.
What is Buddhism?
This helped the Gupta Empire thrive.
What is trade?