Geography
This river is where the Aryans settled and Hinduism Began.
What is the Indus River?
No single founder/ Aryans
2300 BC
Developed along the indus river
3rd largest religion
90% of Hindus live in India
What is Origins of Hinduism
The Noble Truth of Suffering: Life is suffering.
The Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering: Suffering is caused by desire.
The Noble Truth of the Cessation [Stopping] of Suffering: To end suffering, one must end desire.
The Noble Truth of the Path: To end suffering, follow the Eightfold Path.
What is Four Noble Truths
Chandragupta’s grandson and a ferocious warrior.
What is Ashoka?
Roman Empire until 476 AD/Byzantine Empire
What is empire in Europe was flourishing at the same time as the Gupta Empire?
What is a monsoon
Hymns and rituals recorded over a long time by different authors in Sanskirt
What is Vedas
describes how one should act to eliminate desire and thus suffering. The Eightfold Path is the moral code of conduct for Buddhists
What is Eightfold Path
185bc
What is year of Mauryn Empire fall?
Gupta empire is smaller
What is the size of the Gupta Empire compare to the Mauryan Empire?
Most important river in India
What is Ganges River
World’s longest epic poem about war in India
What is Mahabharata
Tripitaka, or Three Basket of Wisdom
It was not the size of India, but rather its cultural diversity
What is the difficulty to govern Mauryan Empire
sculpture carved out of a cave wall of the Hindu god Vishnu in a boar-headed incarnation. It is roughly 23 feet tall and 13 feet wide
What is Udayagiri Caves
extreme water stress, contaminated surface water and lack of access to piped water supply
What is the causes of India's limited water supply
there are millons of gods eacg with their own story personality and responsibility
What is Hindu Concept of Gods
means “blown out,” as in a candle.
What is Nirvana?
an ancient Indian philosophy that combines elements of Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is Jainism
located in Maharashtra. There are a total of 30 Caves altogether that date between 2 BCE to 480/ 650 CE. The caves were discovered in the 19th Century.
What is Ajanta Caves
Vehicle emissions, as well as those from inefficient household fuels such as firewood
What is Major cause of Dehli poor air quality.
Rigid social class system that by birth people are ranked by occupation.Only through reincarnation can you go up/down the caste system
What is Caste System
often refers to Buddhist teaching and practice in general.
led a rebellion that drove out the Greek invaders
What is Chandragupta Maura
During the Gupta dynasty period, there was no symbol for denoting “zero”.
What is concept of 0