These mountains block cold, arctic air from reaching India, and define its northern border.
10 secs
What are the Himalayas?
100
What does the term "Veda" literally mean.
Knowledge
100
The ultimate spiritual reward in Buddhism is this?
What is nirvana?
200
These powerful storms bring tremendous amounts of water from the Indian Ocean to the interior regions of India, helping to make it possible to have up 3 harvests a year.
15 seconds
What are monsoons?
200
The collection of Indian poetic hymns dedicated to the various deities and describing sacred practices is this.
What is the Rig Veda.
200
The Brahmins were important because they
knew how to perform essential sacrifices correctly
300
The diversity of India's landscape has had this effect on its population.
25 seconds
It has created diversity among the people.
300
During the first centuries C.E., the two great epics of India take their final form; they are...
What is the Ramayana and the Mahabharata?
300
Jainism emphasizes the principles of
What is nonviolence, nudity, and asceticism.
400
This crop is grown in the moist, flat Ganges Delta, which receives large amounts of monsoon rains.
What is rice.
30 seconds
400
This was the first empire to unite the Indian Sub-continent.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
400
The habit of Hindu pilgrimage is most important to India because it...
Creates a sense of unity in an otherwise disperate (seperated) landscape.
500
The Indus River Valley receives much less rainfall, thus requiring the widespread use of this technology.
35 seconds
What is irrigation?
500
One of the most important contributions made by Gupta intellectuals was this axiomatic (foundational) mathematical concept.
What is Zero / 0?
500
The habit of the Hindu pilgrimage is most important because it promotes...
contact, exchanges of ideas, and a broad Hindu identity