Geography and Early India
Origins of Hinduism
Origins of Buddhism
Indian Empires
Indian Achievements
100
These are the mountains of northern India.
What are the Himalayas?
100
This developed social order in Aryan society.
What is adhereing to the strict rules of the caste system?
100
This religion appealed to people of all levels of society.
What is Buddhists?
100
The first empire to unify India.
What was the Mauryan Empire of Candragupta Maurya?
100
The Hindu-Arabic numeral system is important to this as are other Indian achievements. We study it in school.
What is mathematics?
200
This is a large landmass, smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
200
According to Hindusim, this states the new physcial form people will be reborn to.
What is karma?
200
While important to the Hindu religion, it is not important to Buddhists.
What is a person's caste?
200
This early Indian society had a strong central government.
What is Harrapan society?
200
This is injecting a person with a small dose of a virus.
What is inoculation?
300
This is a major river that flows from the Himilayas to western India.
What is the Indus River?
300
This religion became more popular after the Guptas took control of India.
What is Hinduism?
300
This religion does not state that contentment springs from gaining what one wants.
What is Buddhist?
300
After the rule of Candra Gupta II, this began a decline.
What is Gupta society?
300
This is the science of metal working.
What is metallurgy?
400
These people invaded the Indus Valley from the west in order to spread Buddhism.
Who are the Aryans?
400
These were complex and ornate places of worship for the Hindu people.
What are temples?
400
After becoming disenchanted, wandering the forest for years, meditating under a tree, this man finally gained insight into human suffering.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
400
He was the son of Candra Gupta and united most of India; he eventually converted to Buddhiusm.
Who is Asoka?
400
This is the relationship between the Vedic text and the Vedas?
What is the Vedic text is a collection of thoughts about the Vedas?
500
These two early Indian societies had many differences.
What are the Harappans and Aryans?
500
This religion was a reaction to Hinduism.
What is Jainism?
500
One follows the Buddha's teaching exactly, while the others allow individual interpretation.
What is the two branches of buddhism, Theravada and Mahayana?
500
These people invaded India from central Asia and caused the end of the Gupta empire.
Who are the Huns?
500
This piece of literature contains the passages called the Bhagavad Gita.
What is the Mahabharata?
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