Geography
Hinduism
Buddhism
Indus River Valley Civilizations
Mauryan & Gupta Achievements
100
"D" represents THIS geographic feature.
What is the Ganges River?
100
Hindus believe in THIS concept, that says the soul is born again into another life after death.
What is reincarnation?
100
The position that the Buddha held before leaving his life behind for the life of a monk.
What is a prince?
100
The name of the ruins found along the Indus river that contained the earliest civilization in India.
What is Harappa?
100
Indian mathematicians invented THIS important number.
What is the number 0?
200
This geographic feature was the birthplace of civilization in ancient India.
What is the Indus River?
200
The caste system was brought to India by these people, who migrated into India and mixed their culture with that of the local people.
Who are the Aryans?
200
Siddhartha Gautama taught that THIS was the cause of all suffering in life.
What is desire?
200
The buildings of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were built out of these. (be specific!)
What are mud bricks?
200
Indian doctors were able to operate on the eyes of their patients, curing blindness caused by THIS.
What are cataracts?
300
This geographic feature protected India civilizations from invasion from the northeast.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
300
This book is sacred to Hinduism, and contains many poems, stories, and prayers written in Sanskrit.
What are the Vedas?
300
Buddhism does not include THIS aspect of Hinduism, which is one of the biggest differences between the religions besides no belief in gods.
What is the caste system?
300
The Harappan people built these along the sides of their streets to keep the cities clean of waste.
What are sewers?
300
Ancient Indian doctors practiced THIS, or a way to expose the body to smaller doses of disease to improve the immune system.
What is inoculation?
400
The Aryan people came through THIS geographic feature when they migrated into ancient India from the northwest.
What are the Hindu-Kush mountains?
400
Hindus believe in this state of being, which includes salvation from the cycle of death and rebirth.
What is Moksha?
400
Siddhartha Gautama taught that THIS was the key to reaching Nirvana.
What is the Eightfold Path?
400
The builders of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro used THIS to neatly organize their cities.
What is a grid system?
400
Ancient Indian mathematicians invented the decimal system, a number system that had THIS number of symbols that could be rearranged to make any number.
What is 10 symbols?
500
THIS weather pattern brings the RAINY season to the Indian subcontinent.
What is the summer monsoon?
500
Hindus believe that all the gods are all a part of this universal entity. (spelling counts on this one!)
What is Brahman?
500
Which people in India were most likely to follow the teachings of the Buddha?
Who are Dalits?
500
The name of a particularly large structure built in Harappa, likely for religious purposes.
What is the Great Bath?
500
The numbers we use today were brought from India to Europe by these people.
What are Arab traders?
600
The Himalayan Mountains are today mostly contained within THIS country. (Not India)
What is Nepal?
600
To Hindus, which god is known as The Preserver?
Who is Vishnu?
600
The total number of weeks that the Buddha meditated under the fig tree.
What is 7 weeks?
600
This was the name of the elevated portion of the ancient city of Harappa.
What is the citadel?
600
The name of the Mauryan leader who converted to Buddhism after recognizing the destruction that wars were bringing to his people.
Who is Ashoka?