Buddhism
Hinduism
Mongols
Geography
Empires
100
The ruler most responsible for the spread of Buddhism.
Ashoka the Great
100
What determines what you will reincarnate as?
karma
100
Temujin united warring Mongol clans and is better known under this title.
Genghis Khan
100
The tallest mountain in the world.
Mt. Everest
100
The empire that controlled the Indus after Alexander the Great.
The Mauryan Empire
200
The name of the Buddha.
Siddhartha Gautama
200
Name for the elephant-headed God who removes obstacles.
Ganesh
200
The two travelers during the 13th and 14th centuries who made the Christian and Islamic world aware of the wealth of the East.
Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
200
The least populated, northernmost region of Asia.
Siberia
200
Empire led by Dalai Lamas.
The Tibetan Empire
300
Three words summarizing the Eightfold Path.
Wisdom, Virtue and Meditation.
300
Name the 3 gods of the Trimurti.
Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer.
300
Founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China.
Kublai Khan
300
Name 3 mountain ranges in Asia.
Any of the following: Caucasus, Himalayas, Hindu-Kush, Taurus, Urals, Zagros
300
The Three Gunpowder Empires.
The Ottoman Turks, Persia (Safavid) and the Mughal Empire.
400
The Four Noble Truths.
All life is suffering, suffering is caused by desire, breaking free of desire and suffering helps you reach Nirvana, and the Eightfold Path is how you reach enlightenment.
400
Name 4 words with their origin in Sanskrit.
Any of the following: avatar, bandana, basmati, brother, buddha, candy, cashmere, cheetah, cot, cow, crimson, daughter, guru, java, juggernaut, jungle, karma, man, mantra, medium, nirvana, pepper, rupee, thug, yoga, yogi
400
Name 4 Khanates or descendants of the Mongol Empire.
Any of the following: Chagatai (central Asia), Ilkhanate (Middle East), Golden Horde (Europe), Khanate of the Great Khan (East Asia), Timurid, and the Mughals (India).
400
The two most important rivers of India.
The Indus and the Ganges
400
Indian Empire which grows at the same time as the empire of Aksum.
The Gupta Empire
500
What is this?
a stupa
500
5 important texts of Hinduism.
The Vedas, the Puranas, the Upanishads, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.
500
Name 5 cities conquered or ruled by the Mongols by 1300.
Any of the following: Aleppo, Baghdad, Balkh, Beijing, Bukhara, Chengdu, Damascus, Dunhuang, Hangzhou, Hormuz, Kabul, Kaifeng, Karakorum, Kashgar, Kiev, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Moscow, Novgorod, Quanzhou, Samarkand, Shangdu, Suzdal, Terbil, Yangzhou, Yarkand and many more!
500
The 5 rivers that flow from the Tibetan Plateau.
The Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Yellow and Yangtze Rivers.
500
Name 5 empires that controlled Samarkand at some point in history.
Any of the following: The Persian Empire, The Macedonian Empire, Abbasid Caliphate, The Mongol Empire, Ilkhanate, Timurid, or The Russian Empire