Geography
Once a sea with a thriving fishing industry, this eastern neighbor of the Caspian Sea is now mostly dried up.
What is the Aral Sea?
According to the Vedas, people should follow this because it is their duty.
What is dharma?
This is the religion that Buddhism was adapted from.
What is Hinduism?
This official announcement, proclamation, or order can only be given by a ruler.
What is an edict?
This Indian emperor issued rock edicts and believed in promoting the welfare of all people.
Who was Emperor Ashoka?
This is the reason the Harappan Society Ended.
What is climate change?
This river originates from the Himalayan Mountains and empties into the Indian Ocean on the east coast of India.
What is the Ganges (Ganga) River?
This is the specific duty to perform the work of one's varna and life stage.
What is svadharma?
This person founded Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
According to Hinduism, this is what doing your dharma helps create.
What is good karma?
This advisor to Emperor Ashoka wrote about the responsibilities of kings and the importance of justice.
Who was Kautilya?
These are two leaders (ruler and kingmaker) of the Mauryan Empire, which at its height was estimated to include 50-60 million people, ranking it among the most populous empires of the ancient world.
Who are Kautilya and Ashoka?
This is the season that wet monsoons travel north, upward from the Indian Ocean onto Southern Asia.
What is the summer?
This term describes what passes through cycles of samsara collecting karma in an effort to achieve moksha and rejoin Brahman.
What is atman?
This is a state of perfect peace achieved by liberation from the physical and mental burdens of existence.
What is nirvana?
When Ashoka wrote his rock edicts after feeling regret for the suffering his conquests created he felt a __________________ to the people of his empire to focus on their welfare/well-being.
What is obligation?
According to Kautilya, what was a king's main responsibility toward his subjects?
What is protecting them through justice?
Historians have NOT made THIS claim about Harappan society: they were skilled artisans, they made technological advances, they had relative equality, or they had isolation from trade?
What is they had isolation from trade?
Far above the Himalayan Mountains, and to the north of the Tian Shan Mountains in Central Asia, these large grasslands are not ideal for growing much except for wheat.
What is the Kazakh Steppe?
These three are sources that Hindus look to in order to guide them on their path to achieve moksha.
What is the Vedas, the Upanishads and the many gods of Hinduism.
This describes the difference between the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is realities Buddha said one must accept to end all suffering verses a set of behaviors that Buddhists follow to find enlightenment?
This is a cause and effect statement about why larger populations of people in the ancient world were found near rivers versus in the mountains.
What is:
- Because
- As a result
- Due to
- so
- since
- this causes
- for this reason
- therefore
Ashoka believed rulers had a responsibility to promote this for all people.
What is everyone's welfare?
These mathematical ideas developed during ancient India's Golden Age.
What are negative numbers and the use of zero?
These are the southern most mountains in India.
What are the Western and Eastern Ghats Mountains?
This describes how svadharma helped create order in ancient South Asian society.
What is svadharma encouraged people to fulfill the responsibilities of their social role and life stage, helping society function in an organized way?
This is advice Siddhartha Gautama would give to help a person who always thinks they must either be completely successful or give up.
What is avoid extreme, all-or-nothing thinking?
This is a cause and effect statement about achieving moksha using at least 3 vocab words.
- moksha
- samsara
- atman
- brahman
- karma
-dharma
-svadharma
+ cause and effect language
This leader believed the empire's wellbeing was most connected to the security and protection of their people, while this ruler believed that the wellbeing of their empire was most connected to people being happy and cared for.
Who is Kautilia(wellbeing= security and protection) and who is Ashoka (wellbeing= people are cared for and happy)?
This period in ancient India included important advances in mathematics, art, and architecture.
What is the Gupta Golden Age?