Indian Geography
India is known as the cradle of
Bonus: Which religions emerged from India?
(Worth 100)
What is religion?
What is Buddhism and Hinduism?
Name of the major cities in the first Indian civilization
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
What three major grains were cultivated and harvested by the inhabitants of the Indus Valley?
What is wheat, barley and rice?
What is the old theory of the collapse of the Indus Valley?
What is the invasion of the Aryans?
What is the name of the ritual where the wife would thrown herself into her husband’s funeral pyre and follow him into death?
Bonus: How was she viewed if she refused to participate in the ritual?
(Worth:100)
What is Sati?
Bonus:The wife was held in disgrace.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
The name of the river that flowed within the first Indian civilization
What is Indus River?
Who did the inhabitants worship?
What is a god or goddess of fertility?
Provide one new theory that led to the collapse of the Indus Valley
What is social decay by the neglect of public services and overcrowded urban areas ?
What does the Law of Manu state as it relates to how a wife should treat her husband?
Bonus: According to the Law of Manu, how should husbands treat their wives?
(Worth:200)
She should worship her lord as a god.
Bonus:They should treat them with respect.
The region in the Western area of India is known as the
Bonus:Which modern day country is the Indus River Valley located in? Excluding India
(Worth 300)
What is the Indus River Valley?
What is Pakistan
Provide the timeframe or date of when the first settlements were established in the first Indian civilization
What is 7000 or 6500BC?
Which nations or civilizations did the inhabitants conduct trade with?
What is Sumer, Iran, Afghanistan, and Egypt?
Provide another theory of the cause that led to the collapse of the Indus Valley
What is natural causes such as earthquakes, flooding, or epidemic?
The most basic unit in Indian society is
Fill in the blank:
Bonus: The ideal social unit was an extended family ____________ living under the same roof.
(Worth:300)
What is the Family?
Bonus: What is three generations?
The name of the mountains located in the Northern region of India
What is Himalayan and Karakoram?
What was the largest city in this Indian settlement?
Bonus: Provide at least two examples of this city being an advanced society
(Worth 400)
What is Harappa?
What is grid system, sewage system, citadel and large city walls?
True or False.
Settlements in the Indus Valley implemented and utilized a centralized government
What is False?
A periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia that impacted Indian society is known as
What is a Monsoon?
Fill in the blanks:
Only_____could own property, _____ were considered _______ according to law.
Only men could own property, women were considered minors according to law.
Name of the region located South of the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges
What is the Ganges River Valley?
What material was used to build homes in the First Indian cities?
Bonus: How many stories tall were some Indian homes?
(Worth 500)
What is mud brick?
What is three stories?
What was the primary purpose of the Harappan or Indus Script?
What is record commercial transactions?
True or False.
Most farmers did own their own land and were not vulnerable to the fluctuations of the market and paid high rental prices.
What is False?
A system of extended families that originated in ancient India and still exists in somewhat changed form today is known as
What is Jati?