Geography
Buddhism
Miscellaneous
Hinduism
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100
This is the name for a landform that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
100
Buddha gave up this "title" after leaving his wealthy home, his family, and everything he knew after seeing weakness, sickness, and even death.
What is prince?
100
This four-letter physical activity of Ancient India is known to focus the mind and strengthen the body.
What is yoga?
100
This group of people's ideas and beliefs mixed with those of the people of the Indus River Valley, creating the religion we know as Hinduism.
Who are the Aryans?
100
Although it is not believed that Ancient Indians used this Mesopotamian, world-changing invention, they definitely saw it when the Aryans rode in on their chariots.
What is the wheel?
200
This is the name of a large landmass that juts out from a continent. India is an example of this.
What is a subcontinent.
200
Although he later became known as Buddha, this was the birth name of the religious leader.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
200
These are the religious books of the Aryan people. Through them, we learned all that we know about this group of nomads who conquered the Indus River Valley.
What are Vedas?
200
This term is the idea that the soul is reborn into another living thing. Good deeds lead to rewards and bad deeds lead to consequences.
What is Reincarnation?
200
Whereas China had the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, India is famous for these two rivers.
What are the Ganges and Indus.
300
Although currently located in Nepal, this tall mountain range was once part of Ancient India.
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
300
This term is also known as "lasting peace." According to Buddhism, you must lead a perfect life in order to reach it.
What is nirvana?
300
This is a practice in which one trains the mind to focus on internal answers or the reach a state of consciousness where a person is one with their mind.
What is meditation?
300
These Hindu religious texts are written in the form of question and answer, from pupil to teacher, respectively.
What are Upanishads?
300
Although there were similar forms of this in Mesopotamian cities, Mohenjo-Daro really cleaned up with this invention.
What is Indoor Plumbing?
400
This seasons monsoon winds come off of the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, providing India with much needed rainfall for crops.
What is summer?
400
A step by step "guide" that Buddhists follow is known by these two names.
What is The Middle Way and The Eightfold Path.
400
This is the name given to the division of social classes in Ancient India. Although spelled differently, it shares its name with a device that doctor's sometimes use to secure a bone from movement.
What is the caste system?
400
This term describes the focus on non-violence towards any living thing. This is the main reason that many Hindus do not eat meat.
What is Ahisma?
400
Although it was built on a mound as well, Mohenjo-Daro still used these small ditches to divert water, just like in Mesopotamia.
What are canals, or irrigation ditches?
500
Although not the most important mountain range in Ancient India, this mountain range could be traversed using mountain passes.
What are the Hindu Kush Mountains?
500
This step number in the Buddhists step by step guide encourages positive attitudes which leads to positive thinking.
What is step number six.
500
This city is the capital of modern India.
What is New Delhi?
500
All the gods that Hindus believe in are said to make up this one spirit.
Who is Brahman?
500
The name of this line of latitude where many of our ancient civilizations are located, contains the name of a disease that effects millions of people.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
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