Geography
This mountain range separates India from China and contains Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
What is the Himalayan mountain range?
The name of this tribal people translates to "aboriginal," meaning the first people in India.
What is adivasi?
This emperor of the Mauryan Empire was grandfather of Ashoka and fought with the general of Alexander the Great.
Who is Chandragupta?
This individual founded the Mughal Empire.
Who is Babur?
This was the name of the English company that took over India.
What is the British East India Company?
This religion, started by Siddhartha Gautama, is no longer widely practiced in India but is a major religion in China.
What is Buddhism?
This river runs in the northeast of India.
What is the Ganges River?
This ancient civilization had advanced cities and a writing system that we have not deciphered.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This was one of the powers that ruled in India after the fall of the Mauryan Empire and BEFORE the Mughal Empire.
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This Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal.
Who is Shah Jahan?
Mohandas Gandhi practiced law in this city in England.
What is London?
This epic tale tells the story of Prince Rama, who rescues his wife from the evil demon Ravana.
What is the Ramayana?
This dry and rugged region lies between the Indus River in the north and the Ghats mountains in the south.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
These ancient hymns contain the story of a cosmic man who was sacrificed, thus leading to four castes of Indian society.
What are the Vedic hymns?
During Ashoka's war with this region, over 100,000 people were killed and 100,000 more enslaved.
What is Kalinga?
The army and government officials of Akbar were ranked in a special system that has this name.
What is mansab?
This was the name of Mohandas Gandhi's practice of peaceful noncompliance.
What is satyagraha?
This religion was started by a figure named Mahavira around 600 BC.
What is Jainism?
Due to immense rainfall, the southwest plains of India are known for growing this type of crop.
What is rice?
This is the Indian name for "slash-and-burn" agriculture practiced by the Adivasi.
What is "jhum" ?
This was the name of Ashoka's writing system.
In this battle, Babur took over northern India by defeating the sultan Ibrahim.
What is the Battle of Panipat?
In this year, the Indian sepoys rose up in mutiny against the British East Indian Company.
What is 1857?
Who are the Pandavas/the Kauravas?
This mountain pass leads into India from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
What is Khyber Pass?
This was the name of the kingdom in northeast India from which the Mauryan Empire arose.
What is Magadha?
This was the son of Babur, and he died by falling down a staircase.
Who is Humayun?
This was the British title of someone who oversaw the activities of the British East India Company. Charles Cornwallis, who surrendered to the American colonies at Yorktown, once held this position.
What is governor-general?
This ritual involving a white cord turns an adolescent male into an adult member of society.
What is the twice-born ritual?
This island off the coast of India is a country that was once invaded by the Pallavas.
What is Sri Lanka?
This was the name of the city that was built by the creator of the Taj Mahal.
What is Shahjahanabad?
This was the name of the British colony in south Africa where Gandhi lived.
What is Natal?
This collection of written laws is part of the religion of Hinduism but came long after the creation of the Vedic Hymns.
What is the Dharma Shastra?