Indus and Ganges rivers
Hinduism
Buddhism
Empires
Vocabulary
100
Heavy rains from the Indian ocean.
What characterized the summer monsoons?
100
The religions of the Aryans mixed with the existing cultures of India.
What started Hinduism?
100
The number of rules in the middle way.
What is eight?
100
Built a series of roads.
What made trading easier in the Maruaya Empire?
100
A large land mass that juts out of a continent.
What is subcontinent?
200
Dry air.
What characterized the winter monsoons?
200
The Upnishads.
What are the religious texts of Hinduism?
200
By following the eightfold path.
How you reach nirvana?
200
Asoka
Who was Chandragupta's son?
200
A strong wind that blows across East Asia.
What is a monsoon?
300
Moisture from the ocean.
What a summer monsoon picks up?
300
Shakti
Who is believed to be the destroyer and the creator.
300
The people who spread the Buddha's message.
Who are missionaries and traders?
300
Buddhism in the Marauyan Empire.
What religion did Asoka convert to?
300
The rebirth of a soul in another living being.
What is reincarnation?
400
The Indus river valley.
Where is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
400
Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
What are the three most important Hindu gods?
400
Japan, China, Korea, Tibet, and Vietnam.
What are the countries that Buddhism spread to?
400
Moral and spiritual life
What two things Asoka was concerned with in people's lives?
400
The lasting peace of the Buddhists.
What is nirvana?
500
The direction the monsoon blows from October to May.
What is the northeast?
500
It replaced animal offerings.
What private devotion replaced?
500
Siddhartha Gautama
What was the Buddha's name?
500
One of India's greatest writers.
Who is Kalidasa?
500
The Hidus belief of nonviolence.
What is ahimsa?
M
e
n
u