A Big *ss Landmass: Geography of the Indian Subcontinent
A large landmass that juts out from a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
The twin cities.
What are Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Aryan chiefs.
What are rajahs?
The meaning of "Buddha."
What is "Enlightened One"?
An unchanging, all-powerful spiritual force.
What is brahman?
A defining weather feature of India.
What are monsoons?
Worship of animals.
What is veneration?
Two examples of Aryan epic literature.
What are the Mahabharata and Ramayana?
What are the Four Noble Truths?
Karmic ranking order from highest → lowest.
What is humans → animals → plants → objects?
A holy river.
What is the Ganges?
Material used to make clothes in ancient Indus Valley civilizations.
What is cotton?
The new language that the Aryans brought to the Indus River Valley.
What is Sanskrit?
The collection of Buddha’s teachings.
What is the Tripitaka?
Endless cycle of birth, life, death & rebirth.
What is samsara?
Two famous mountain ranges in India.
What are the Hindu Kush & Himalayas?
The name of the world's first public bathhouse, which was located in Mohenjo-Daro.
What is the Great Bath?
The highest caste of the Aryan civilization.
What is Brahmin?
Two sects of Buddhism.
What are Theravada and Mahayana?
3 most important Hindu gods.
Who are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva?
3 regional zones.
What are the Northern plain, Deccan and Coastal plains?
3 examples of environmental destruction that led to the decline of Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro.
What are deforestation, a volcanic eruption and an earthquake?
The absolute lowest caste of the Aryan social system.
What is Untouchables?
Right perspectives within the Eightfold Path.
What are "views"?
The faith group that practiced ahimsa.
What is Jainism?