Geography
Golden Age of India
Monks
Everyday Life
100
The most important river in India
Ganges River
100
Term for a family that rules over one area of the world for many years
Dynasty
100
Man that the monks were followers of
Buddha
100
Animals raised by mountain people for fleece
Mountain Sheep
200
The mountain range that borders northern India and Tibet
Himalayas
200
Name of the dynasty (also the ending of every king's name)
Gupta dynasty
200
What houses did the monks live in?
Caves in the cliffside
200
The language of early India
Sanskrit
300
The tallest mountain in the Himalayas and in the world
Mount Everest
300
Man who conquered the small Indian kingdoms and made them into one large Indian empire
Chandragupta
300
How did the monks make the sculptures in their caves?
tiny little chisels
300
Work people did before India's Golden Age (name 1)
Farming, raising livestock
400
The part of India that has palm trees, tropical jungles, tigers and elephants
South or coastal
400
King who saved the Indian people from the Hun Barbarians
Skandagupta
400
A type of painting that is made by putting plaster on walls and painting the plaster while it's still wet
Frescoe
400
Careers people had during the Golden Age (name at least 2)
Poet, playwright, artist, sculptor, scholar (mathematician, astronomer), doctor
500
A desert in northeastern India that you would come through if traveling from Byzantium
Thar desert
500
When the Gupta dynasty ended
Any answer between 540-550 AD is acceptable, including the 6th century.
500
What are the monks' caves called
Ajanta caves
500
Did fighting off the Huns make India stronger and richer, or poorer and weaker?
Poorer & weaker