Geography
It is what separates India from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalaya Mountains
These Indian civilizations were known to be clean and well organized.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
This is the approximate date that the people of the ancient Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations dissappeared.
What is around 1500 BCE?
A caste is.....
A social group that someone is born into and cannot change.
The ultimate goal of Buddhism.
What is nirvana/enlightenment?
Where the ancient Indian civilization first developed.
What is around the Indus River?
The ancient writing in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro that remains a mystery.
What is Indus Script which historians can not decipher?
Aryan's brought this animal to India and it was thought to be sacred.
What is the cow/cattle?
Name at least two things that the caste system dictates (orders)
What is:
what job you have, who you can marry, with whom you can be friends with, where you live...
Siddhartha Gautama was known as _________ and what does that mean?
What is Buddha and "Enlightened One?"
Strong winds that blow in one direction in winter and the opposite direction in the summer bringing heavy rain.
What are monsoons?
The results of the Indus River flooding in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. (besides bringing silt)
What are cities built on top of each other?
Aryans were pastoral, and this means.....
What is dependent on cattle and migrated livestock (farm animals)?
The number of castes that were born from the body of the Hindu god- Brahama.
What are four?
To eliminate desires for worldly things, and the end of cycles of rebirths, Buddha taught his people to follow this.
What is the Eightfold Path?
Name at least four of the countries that are considered part of the subcontinent of India
What are Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives?
The Indus Valley and Harappan Civilizations were very isolated.
What is because of the huge mountains north and west of the Indus River, contact with other civilizations was limited?
Name at least two contributions brought by the Aryans.
What is:
Sanskrit (written language)
the Caste system
Horses and cattle
Name new other names for the "Untouchables."
What are: Pariahs, Outcasts, or Dalits?
In Hinduism, this determines your reincarnation status.
What is Karma?
This current day country is where the Indus Valley and Harappan Civilization developed.
What is Pakistan?
This is the technology/advancement that the Indus Valley Civilizations created.
What is a sewer system or trash chute?
Aryans first recited and then later recorded their religious beliefs and traditions in....... (basis of Hinduism)
What are the Vedas?
Name all four castes from the top and at least one example of a job in each caste.
What are: Brahmin- priests, teachers, gurus
Kshatriyas- rulers, warriors
Vaishyas- landowners, merchants, artisans, and herders
Shudras/Sudras- laborers, farmers, servants
The oldest religion that believed in many dieties that had male and female forms.
What is Hinduism?