Geography of Ancient India
Early Indian Civilization
Beginning of Hinduism
Beginning of Buddhism
True or False
100
The world's largest mountain range.
What are the Himalayas?
100
A city of the ancient Harrapan civilization.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
100
"Books of Knowledge" with sacred songs in them
What are Vedas?
100
A man who devotes his life to a religious group.
What is a monk?
100
The Nile River begins in the Himalayas and crosses desertlike plains before reaching the Arabian Sea.?
What is False?
200
A large landmass that is geographically separate from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
200
A walled fort that protects the city.
What is a citadel
200
The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
What is reincarnation?
200
In Buddhism, the principles that rule life and promises an end to suffering.
What is the Four Noble Truths?
200
Sesame is a seed used for cooking and making oil.
What is True?
300
A river that flows from Tibet, through the Himalayas and Hindu Kush into the Arabain Sea.
What is the Indus River?
300
An ancient Indian language
What is Sanskrit?
300
What a person does in one life influences the caste that person will be born into in the next life.
What is karma?
300
In Buddhism, the basic rules of behavior and belief leading to an end of suffering.
What is the Eightfold Path
300
Little is known about Harappan civilization because its writing system has not yet been figured out.?
What is True?
400
A vast, dry region south of the Himalayas
What is the Indus Plain?
400
A city of the Ancient Harappan Village, 2500-1600 B.C.
What is Harappa?
400
"laws and duties" of the Hindu religion
What is dharma?
400
King who united India and made Buddhism the state religion.
Who was Asoka?
400
Siddhartha Gautama is the prince who founded Hinduism.
What is False?
500
Farmers built these to bring water from the river to their crops.
What is irrigation canals?
500
These people migrated to the Indian subcontinent about 1500 B.C.
Who are Aryans?
500
A special religious place
What is a shrine?
500
In Buddhism, a way of life, neither too strict nor too easy that results from the Eightfold Path
What is the Middle Way?
500
Today Hinduism has only 1 million followers.
What is False?
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