Ancient India Review

Geography

100

This mountain range lies to the north of India

What are the Himalayas

200

This Body of water lies directly to the east of the Indian subcontinent.

What is the Bay of Bengal?

300

This river in Northern India is considered a holy site to several Indian religions 

What is the Ganges river?

400

These seasonal winds blow rain and flooding to the Indian Subcontinent 

What are the summer monsoons?

500

This ancient city is situated in the Indus River Valley.

What is the city of Harappa/Mohenjo Daro? 

Early Civilizations

100

This ancient civilization was known to be peaceful. But disappeared mysteriously around 1900 BCE

What is the Indus Valley Civilization?

200

This nomadic group settled in the Indus Valley and Northern India around 1500 BCE

Who are the Aryans?

300

This religion practiced by the Aryans eventually evolved into Hinduism

What is Brahminism?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!

This language was used by the Aryans and composed most of there religious texts.

What is Vedic/Sanskrit? 

500

This large collection of hymns totals some 1028 hymns, organized into ten books maṇḍalas.

What is the RigVeda?

Jainism

100

Term for rebirth that is also used in other Indian religions.

What is samsara?

200

This term is believed to be possessed by all living creature.

What is a jiva? Soul

300

The Jainism Vow of non violence is called.

What is Ahimsa?

400

This person lived in northern India and is looked to as the progenitor of modern Jainism

What was Mahavira?

500

Jains believe that to rid one self of karma they must live their life according to these guidelines.

What are the 5 vows?

Buddhism

100

Buddha practiced an extreme version of this after leaving his comfortable life as a prince.

What is asceticism?

200

Buddhist term for escaping rebirth and becoming enlightened.

What is Nirvana?

300

The name Buddha Had prior to achieving enlightenment.

Who was Siddhartha Gautama?

400

It is said that Buddha discovered these while meditating under a bodhi tree.

What are the four noble truths?

500

It is said that one can escape the suffering of life by following this set of guidelines.

What is the eight fold path?

Brahmanism/Hinduism

100

This is the class system in India for Hinduism

What is the caste system

200

In Hinduism this class of people were typically considered to be the class of merchants and tradesmen.

Who are Vaishyas? 

300

The First of the four stages of an Ideal Hindu life.

What is the Student/learning phase?

400

In Hinduism this god is know as the Preserver and is one of the foremost deities. 

Who is Vishnu?

500

System dictating different jobs for a family or family group that fit into the varna system.

What is Jati?