Geography
Hinduism first developed around this river
What is the Indus river?
Rigid system class that by birth people are ranked by occupation only through reincarnation can you go up down the caste system
What is the Cast system?
Started with Buddha
What is Buddhism
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. We're all apart of a system known as.
What is a cast system?
Hundisum unified this empire
What is the Gupta empire?
The most important river in India
What is the Ganges river?
Responsibility of your caste
What is Dharma?
A route of great enlightenment
What is the middle path?
Vedas - were earliest texts that had a role to play
What is the Vedic Sanskrit?
The Gupta empire became very wealthy because of this
What is trade?
Protected against invaders
What are the Himalayan Mountins?
Sum of ones good / bad actions
What is Karma?
Like Hindus, Buddhists believe that there is escape from the cycle of reincarnation. For Buddhists, the goal of spiritual life is to reach a certain point
What is Nirvana?
The religion that Ashoka turn to that changed the way he ruled the Maurya empire
What is Buddhism?
Had a golden age because of there advancements in mathematics and medicine
What is the Gupta empire?
18th largest desert
What is the Thar desert?
Hymns and rituals recorded over a long time by different authors in Sanskrit
What is a Vedas?
What are the four Nobel truths?
Samsara has a meaning
What is the cycle of rebirth?
Gupta's biggest contribution to there golden age
Whats trade?
Seasonal wind that brings an abundance of rain when it blows from south to the north
What is a Monsoon?
Worlds longest epic poem about war of India
What is the Mahabharata?
A Path describes how one should act to eliminate desire and thus suffering.
What is the Eightfold path?
This is the source of suffering
What is desire?
The most well preserved and impressive of these examples are reliefs carved out of caves.
What is Sculpture & Architecture?