Understand India's Land
A major subdivision of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Ancient India was advanced in these systems.
What are sewage/drainage and well-water systems?
True or False: Under the Jatis system, people could switch into a different Jatis.
This is a state in which humans no longer experience suffering.
What is nirvana?
These people controlled provinces.
Who were governors.
Name 1 positive and 1 negative impact of summer monsoons.
What is helps crops grow and causes floods and monsoons.
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa used this kind of layout to divide cities into blocks.
What is a grid layout?
In the caste system, this group fell outside the four main varnas and performed "unclean" tasks.
What are the Untouchables?
This is when a soul dies and is reborn into another form.
What is reincarnation?
This is the name given to the Gupta Empire.
These two rivers create lush farmland for agriculture and desirable areas for civilizations.
What are the Indus and Ganges?
Public bathing areas were used for this reason.
What is hygiene, rituals, community gatherings.
What is Brahmin?
These are the 3 major gods of Hinduism.
Name 2 precautions Maurya took as a paranoid ruler.
What is having servants taste food for poison, sleeping in different beds each night, training female warriors, setting up spy networks, and hiring spies to watch his spies?
This is theorized to have disrupted farming and trading in the Indus Valley.
What are changing river patterns?
Name 2 agriculture practices of ancient India?
What are crop rotation, irrigation, and animal domestication.
This influenced someone's varna in the caste system.
What is birth?
This can be accomplished by following dharma and means liberation.
What is moksha?
Name an invention how it changed life in ancient India.
Answers will vary.
These are two benefits of ancient India's mountainous geography.
What is forming a natural boundary, allowing people to pass, being a gateway for trade, or storing run off water?
Fill in the blanks: ______________________ were buildings that stored food from _____________ and ____________.
What are granaries, pests, and floods?
In order, name categories of people under each varna from the bottom of the pyramid to the top.
Answers will vary.
This holiday involves throwing colorful powders/paints.
What is Holi?
Samudragupta supported these two things during his rule.
What are Hinduism and the arts?