This is term for a large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
This happened in 1,700 BC in the Indus Valley civilization.
What is "the people disappeared?"
100
This term is the title of a collection of "Indian" sacred hymns.
What are the Vedas?
100
This is one of India's greatest pieces of literature and tells the story of Rama and Sita.
What is Ramayana?
100
This is another name for Siddhartha Gautama.
What is the Buddha?
200
This is a term for seasonal winds.
What is monsoon?
200
This is a type of wood that the Indus Valley people traded.
What is teak?
200
This term is associated with "untouchables."
What is Dalits?
200
This is the term for thinkers and teachers who left their homes to live in the forest, to think, and to talk about religious ideas.
What is guru?
200
This is a term that means a perfect state of wisdom.
What is enlightenment?
300
These are two mountain ranges that separate India from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayan and Hindu Kush Mountains?
300
This term means fortified area.
What is a citadel?
300
This is where the Aryans moved by 500 BC.
What is the Ganges Plain?
300
This is the term for the belief in the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
What is reincarnation?
300
This word describes the content of the Four Noble Truths.
What is suffering?
400
During the winter, winds blow ------- the land to the sea. During the summer, winds blow ------ the sea to the land.
What is FROM?
400
This is a reason that we don't know if they had a central government or religion.
What is there were no royal tombs or statues? OR What is there is no sign of temples or priests?
400
This is the most accepted theory of how the Aryans came to be in India.
What is "were once nomads raising cattle and horses in Afghanistan and Central Asia who migrated to India?"
400
This term means the effect of a person's actions in this and in previous lives.
What is karma?
400
This is a state of blissful peace without desire or suffering.
What is nirvana?
500
These are four of the countries that make up South Asia.
What are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, and Bhutan?
500
This is a theory of what happened to the Indus Valley people.
What is drought killed them? OR What is foreign invasion? OR What is standing water in the drains that spread disease that weakened them? OR What is that the people stripped the area of wood? OR What is the cattle herds overgrazed and this led to starvation?
500
These are the FIVE varnas.
What are Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras, and Dalits?
500
These are two of the goals of a Hindu.
What is dharma? What is striving for well-being or a job? What is pleasure? What is moksha?
500
Name three of the steps to the Eightfold Path.
What is right belief, right purpose, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditation?