Rig Veda
Purusha has this many heads.
What are one thousand?
"Thousand-headed Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed he, having pervaded the earth on all sides, still extends ten fingers beyond it."
This is one task that the Brahman must complete, according to the Law of Manu.
What is teaching and studying the Vedas, sacrificing for their own benefit and for others, or giving and accepting of alms?
This is the religious belief that the soul or spirit, after death, begins a new life in a new body.
What is reincarnation?
This is the one Supreme Being or Reality.
Who is Brahman?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought and killed Humbaba here.
What is the Cedar Forest?
Religious texts left behind by the Aryans
What are the Vedas?
This is one task that the Kshatriya must complete, according to the Law of Manu.
What is to protect the people, to bestow gifts, to offer sacrifices, to study the Vedas, or to abstain from attaching himself to sensual pleasures?
This is the good or bad actions that determine the future of an individual's existence.
What is karma?
An overwhelming majority of Hindus (94%) live in this one country.
What is India?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This is what happens to Purusha.
What is he is sacrificed by the gods (oblation) to create everything?
This is one task that the Vaishya must complete, according to the Law of Manu.
What is to tend cattle, to bestow gifts, to offer sacrifices, to study the Vedas, to trade, to lend money, or to cultivate land?
The divine law that underlying right behavior and social order.
What is dharma?
The people of this civilization are considered the earliest ancestors of modern Indians, and their culture was the foundation for Hindu society.
What is the Indus River Valley (or Indus Valley) civilization?
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
These are the four castes.
What are Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra?
This is one task that the Shudra must complete, according to the Law of Manu.
What is to serve the other castes?
This is the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
What is samsara?
This is the written language that the Ancient Indians used.
What is Sanskrit?
This was the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
Beyond the caste system, what else does Purusha become?
What is: Horses, cows, sheep, goats, the moon, the sun, the wind, the atmosphere, the earth and the cardinal directions.
This is why the Law of Manu was created.
What is as a guide to proper behavior for Hindus?
This is the liberation or release from the cycle of death and rebirth.
What is moksha?
This is an ethic for living together in a diverse society: not mere tolerance or relativism, but the real encounter of commitments.
What is pluralism?
By 3000 B.C.E., Mesopotamia was firmly under the control of these people.
Who were the Sumerians?