Geography and the Early Settlement of India
The Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, and Arabian Ocean.
What are the bodies of water that surround India?
In this building, workers may have crushed the grain into flour.
What is a granary?
The holy Indian book.
What is the Vedas?
When Prince Siddhartha went into town 3 times he discovered something each time.
What are the 3 types of forms of suffering?
Eris dropped a Golden Apple.
What did Eris drop at the wedding?
Underneath the Himalaya Mountains, the earth is always moving, Causing this in the area.
What are earthquakes and landslides?
Scientists believe hostile invaders came and destroyed the city, while others think natural causes, caused the mysterious disappearance.
What might have caused the disappearance of Mohenjodaro?
These are the parts of the caste system.
What were Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras?
Prince Siddhartha and his wife had a wedding of how many days and nights.
What is seven days and seven nights?
Hera offered power, while Athena offered knowledge. Athena offered a wife as fair as her.
What did each goddess offer Paris?
India is a subcontinent since it is connected to Asia.
Why is India a subcontinent?
Many objects that show animals, such as buffalo, bulls, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, fish, and crocodiles.
What are seals?
Marriage is one form of this.
What is Dharma?
Siddartha was ascetic for what reason.
What was to find peace and happiness.
The oracle told his parents that Paris was a firebrand that would burn down the kingdom.
What did the oracle tell Hecuba and Priam?
These sprang up in the Indus-Saravati.
What are farming settlements?
This is what terra-cotta is used for.
What are narrow windows?
Vishnu's six arms represent a characteristic about him.
What is a symbol of strength?
He meditated through the night to reach a state.
What was the state of Nirvana?
Because Achilles' only weakness is his ankle/heel.
Why is Achilles not fully impervious/invincible/unstoppable/etc?
Steep slopes, narrow valleys, thick hardwood forests, extremely heavy rains.
What are the Western Ghats?
They played a war game with dice and pieces called pawns.
What is an early form of chess?
The person's caste was chosen (at birth) by the amount of _____ in one's soul.
What is Karma?
Siddartha became the Buddha, how he was able to spread his teachings to become enlightened.
What were the eightfold path and four noble truths?
Two of the Gorgons lay sprawled together shaped like ____ yet scaled head to toe as _____ are.
What is women and serpents?