India Geography
This river is the heartbeat of India and one of the most significant rivers on the planet.
What is the Ganges?
This is the name of the most famous city in the lost Indus River Valley civilization.
What is Mohenjo Daro?
This is the name of the prince who lived a life of luxury until age 29 and would become the Buddha.
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
This is Enlightenment, escape from the cycle of rebirth, in Buddhism.
What is nirvana?
This is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Just south of the Indus River is this hot dry area of India.
What is the Thar Desert?
The writing system of the Indus Valley River Civilization, called the Indus or Harrapan Script, is India's first writing system and cannot be this.
What is cannot be read or translated?
This prophecy, made at his birth, set the course of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, who would become the Buddha.
What is that he would either rule the world or become an important holy man?
The First Noble Truth holds that life is this, and will involve suffering.
What is impermanent (always changing)?
This is a strong wind that brings heavy rain.
What is a monsoon?
In the north, this forms the highest mountain range in the world and slope southward into a large fertile plain that covers much of north India.
What is the Himalayas?
These are examples of the arts in the Indus River Valley civilization.
What are sculpture, toys and games?
Siddhartha Gautama lived this kind of life until he turned 29.
What is a life in luxury with all his wants being met?
According to Buddhism, suffering is caused by this.
What is craving?
This is a flat area of land that is elevated.
What is a plateau?
Three mountain ranges surround this river in the northwest of India.
What is the Indus River?
We can be fairly sure that the Indus River Valley Civilization had a social system because of this evidence.
What are differing housing in different neighborhoods of the cities that indicates wealthier and poorer classes?
After leaving his life of luxury, Siddhartha Gautama embraced this lifestyle, that gave up all worldly pleasures in the extreme of sacrifice.
What is asceticism or being an ascetic?
The Third Noble Truth of Buddhism states that we can end suffering by detaching ourselves from this and being content with what we have.
What is what we crave?
This is a place to store excess grain.
What is a granary?
Moving south, this geographic feature covers most South Central India.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
This is the most impressive technology in the Indus River Valley Civilization, which wouldn't be seen again for 2000 years in the Roman Empire.
What is a sewer system?
The Buddha came to believe very strongly that freedom would not be found in extremes but in this.
What is a middle way?
Following the Eightfold Path is this Noble Truth of Buddhism.
What is the Fourth Noble Truth?
This is a fortress built to protect a city.
What is a citadel?