Geography
This mountain range protected ancient India from many invasions.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
The civilization that declined before the Vedic Age began.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
One of the world’s oldest religions that began in India.
What is Hinduism?
The caste system divided people based on this.
What is birth?
Founder of the Mauryan Empire.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
These two rivers supported farming and early settlements in India.
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
These nomadic people migrated into India during the Vedic Age.
Who were the Aryans?
The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth in Hinduism.
What is samsara?
The caste system mainly affected a person’s job and this.
What is social position?
Mauryan ruler who spread Buddhism after war.
Who was Ashoka?
This natural event helped rivers leave fertile soil for farming.
What is flooding?
Sacred texts written during the Vedic Age.
What are the Vedas?
The founder of Buddhism.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
True or False: People could easily change castes in ancient India.
What is false?
One way Buddhism influenced Ashoka’s rule.
What is nonviolence or kindness or fairness?
Seasonal winds that bring heavy rain to India are called this.
What are monsoons?
One way the Vedic Age influenced Indian society.
What is religion or social structure?
The main problem Siddhartha noticed in the world.
What is suffering?
This belief explains how actions affect future lives.
What is karma?
Empire known as a Golden Age of learning and achievement.
What is the Gupta Empire?
One way rivers helped Indian civilizations besides farming.
What is transportation or trade?
A social system that began developing during the Vedic Age.
What is the caste system?
The Buddhist goal of freedom from suffering and rebirth.
What is nirvana?
This belief explains a person’s duty in life.
What is dharma?
One important achievement of the Gupta Empire
What is the concept of zero (or advances in science, medicine, or art)?