What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
100
Who is the god of protection who has many avatars like Rama?
Vishnu
100
What is the idea that all people have a certain job or responsibility to do?
Dharma
100
What kind of caste was the Buddha originally born into? High or low?
Kshatriya-High
200
What is the name of the mountain range to the northeast of India
Himalayan Mountains
200
Who is the god of destruction and dance?
Shiva
200
What is the idea that what goes around comes around? If you do good, you will be rewarded. If you do bad, you will be punished.
Karma
200
What is the name of the founder of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Guatama
300
What is the name of TWO of the rivers in India?
Brahmaputra, Ganges, Indus
300
Who is the god of creation?
Brahma
300
What is samsara?
The cycle of life: birth, death, rebirth,
300
What did the Buddha see when he finally left his palace?
Old age, death, sickness
400
Retell one of the myths of how India was started. Use the word FERTILE in your story.
Two rivers were racing down the mountains. One river was distracted by the mountains and hills. He got to the bottom last. He met the other river and together they joined into one. The land between the rivers was very fertile because the rivers brought down good minerals from the glaciers.
400
Why might Hindu gods be blue?
Because they mimic the sky or water and both were important to Hindus.
400
What do you call the social structure levels in Hinduism?
Caste System
400
Why did Buddha become a monk? What was he trying to achieve?
He was trying to answer the question: why is there suffering in the world?
500
Explain why land in between rivers if fertile
The land in between rivers is fertile because minerals from the glaciers are carried down in the summer when the weather gets warmer.
500
What do you call a PERSON who follows Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu? What do you call the RELIGION? What do you call their main language?