GEOGRAPHY
What causes the Himalaya Mountains to rise each year?
What is tectonic plates
What is the caste system?
what is a system that puts people into groups
What is Monsoon?
Both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in what country?
What is India
What two river systems are the hearts of India's Civilization?
What caste has the jobs of teachers and priest?
The idea that you will be reborn into a new body or samsara.
What is reincarnation
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
What is Buddha
The Indus River starts in the Himalayas and ends in the ________________.
What is Arabian Sea
What jobs fall under the Vaisya caste? (name 2)
What is Merchants, Artisans, Farm owners, scribes ect
The law of cause and effect. The belief that doing good things will result in good actions
What is karma
Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. This means what
What is they believe in multiple or more than one god.
What body of water do wet monsoons get their water from?
What is Indian Ocean?
Arabian sea or Bay of Bengal are worth 1/2
A group created as outcasts and forced to remain in jobs that were believed to be unclean are called the _______.
What are Dalits (or untouchables)
What is Dharma
Which religion believes in the idea that all humans suffer? The only way to reach nirvana is to let go of your desires?
What is buddhism
What is the trade route located in the Hindu Kush Mountains?
What is Khyber Pass
What is jati
What is a subcontinent?
What god is the creator of the caste system?
What is Brahma/ Brahman
List the Caste System in order from top to bottom and list their jobs that go with it.
What is
Brahmin: priests and teachers
Kshatriyas: warriors and rulers
Vasyias: Merchants, farmer, artisans
Shudras: laborers
Dalit: untouchables