Geography/Climate
Early History
Hinduism
Buddhism
Empires/Family Life
100
rain
What do monsoon winds bring in the summer months?
100
a battle between feuding royal families
What is the central theme of the Mahabharata?
100
castes
What are the social groups into which people are born?
100
Enlightened One
What does the term Buddha mean?
100
dowry
What is the payment of a bride's family to a bridgegroom?
200
monsoons
What are the seasonal winds of India?
200
rajah
What is the chief of an Aryan tribe called?
200
Dharma
What do you call the religious and moral duties of an individual?
200
caste system
Buddhists reject what?
200
Chandragupta
Which emperor established order by creating a bureaucracy to accomplish government tasks?
300
Deccan plateau
Which region of the Indian subcontinent is generally arid and unproductive for farming?
300
cows and bulls
How did Aryans measure their wealth?
300
karma
What do Hindus call the belief that all the actions of a person's life affect their fate in the next life?
300
meditation
Buddhists believe that one can achieve enlightenment through what?
300
Tamil Kingdoms of the Deccan
Who had a flourishing trade with China and the Roman empire?
400
Indus
Archaeologists believe that what civilization lived in carefully planned cities?
400
Indra, god of war.
Who was the chief Aryan diety?
400
moksha or union with brahmin
What do Hindus believe is ultimate goal of existence?
400
One of the Four Noble Truths
This requirement, "all life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow" is part of what requirement?
400
Asoka
Which Mauryan emperor converted to Buddhism and vowed to rule by moral example?
500
plateau
What is geographic term describes the Deccan territory?
500
nomadic
What type of lifestyle did the Aryans have before acculturation?
500
Kshiatriyas
What was the name for the warrior caste?
500
Siddhartha Guatama
Who was the prince that sat under a tree to meditate on life's suffering?
500
Gupta
During which empire did mathematicians develop the decimal system?
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