History of South Asia
This earliest known civilization in South Asia developed complex irrigation and sewer systems, and planned cities on a grid.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
Hindus believe in a cosmic consciousness known as this.
What is Brahman?
Siddhartha Gautama encountered these three people in his quest to find meaning in life.
Who are a sick man, a dying man, and a dead man?
These are the three main religions practiced in South Asia.
What are Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism?
This is the reason many countries' GDP per capita continues to fall even when their overall GDP is growing.
What is population growth outpacing economic growth?
The Indo-Aryans composed sacred hymns known as this. They contained their beliefs about life and history and were passed on through complex chanting patterns and eventually written down.
What are the Vedas?
This is one of the reasons Hinduism is so flexible.
What is it doesn't require regular meetings and it can absorb many different belief systems?
Buddhism began in this country, even though it eventually spread east and became more influential in other areas.
What is India?
Besides ethnic diversity, this is the most diverse cultural trait in South Asia.
What is language diversity?
India and Pakistan have fought multiple wars over this contested region.
What is Kashmir?
This Mauryan ruler used pillars to spread his policies of peace and acceptance after he witnessed the horrors of war.
Who was Asoka?
This is the process by which a person's "soul" is reborn into one life after another.
What is reincarnation?
These are the Four Noble Truths.
What are 1)Suffering is universal 2)The cause of suffering is desire 3)Suffering can be eliminated if desire is eliminated 4)The way to eliminate desire is following the Eightfold Path?
This country has the least successful government in South Asia.
What is Afghanistan?
This is the number one contributor to poor air quality in India.
What is the seasonal burning of crops?
This person led a non-violent resistance movement that eventually achieved Indian independence from Great Britain.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
What caste someone is born into depends on this from their past lives.
What is karma?
What is Nirvana (Enlightenment)?
This is the reason every economy in South Asia is considered "developing."
What is their GDP per capita falls below the world average?
This has led to a disrupted monsoon cycle, worsening floods, high temperatures, and droughts in South Asia.
What is climate change?
East Pakistan eventually achieved its independence from West Pakistan as this country.
What is Bangladesh?
Guru commentaries known as this were added to the Vedas, creating what we now know as Hinduism.
What are the Upanishads?
What is the Eightfold Path?
What is poverty?
This ideology still leads to significant discrimination, especially in India, despite being officially banned.
What is the caste system?