Vocabulary
Name for a private teacher in India.
What is a guru?
Word for people who used trade routes to travel to holy sites.
What are pilgrims?
This is where most Indus Valley people lived.
This religion is one of the oldest religions in the world and the third largest religion today.
What is Hinduism?
The Mauryan dynasty set up this type of government.
What is "well-run"?
These are sacred books that recorded Aryan hymns, stories, poems, and prayers.
What are the Vedas?
Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or burial mound.
What are stupas?
Skilled craftspeople would have belonged to this varna.
What is Vaisyas?
In Hinduism, this is the name for the one universal spirit.
What is the Brahman?
The Mauryan empire reached its height under this ruler.
Who is Ashoka?
This person became known as the Buddha.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The rebirth of a soul.
What is reincarnation?
These two rivers were very important to ancient India.
What are the Indus and Ganges?
According to the Buddha, why do people suffer?
What is because they desire worldly things?
Indian mathematics explained the idea of:
What is infinity?
This force decides the forms people will be reborn into in their next lives.
What is karma?
The written language developed in Aryan villages.
What is Sanskrit?
Indus Valley people did not have windows in their homes for this reason.
What is to keep the summer heat out?
Buddhism split into these two groups.
What are Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism?
The ancient Hindus believed this about music.
What is that it was a gift from the gods?
This person founded India's first empire.
Who was Chandra Gupta?
This Buddhist leader acts as the head of Tibet's government.
Who is the Dalai Lama?
These natural disasters possibly caused the people of the Indus Valley to begin to abandon their cities.
What are earthquakes and floods?
This person developed the modern form of Jainism.
Who is Mahavira?
This is a section of an ancient religious, heroic poem.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?