Buddhism
Hindusim
Harappans
Political Philosophy
Vocabulary & Geography
100

This is the founder of Buddhism.

Who is Siddhartha Gautama?

100

This is the continent that Hinduism started on.

What is Asia or South Asia

100
This is the river that the Harappans lived on.

What is the Indus River?

100

This is the definition of political philosophy.

What is a specific way to think about politics or government?

100

This is an object from the past that gives us information about how people lived.

What is an artifact?

200

This is what Siddhartha saw that inspired him to meditate and become the Buddha

What is an old man, sick man, dead man (1/2 points if you say "suffering")?

200
This is the original sacred text of Hinduism

What is the Vedas

200

This is an example of something that archeologists have not found at Harappan sites.

What are temples, statues, evidence of military, palaces, elaborate tombs?

200
This was the empire of Chandragupta, Kautilya, and Ashoka.

What is the Maurya(n) Empire?

200

This is a style of handwriting.

What is a script?

300

This is where Buddhist monks and nuns live.

What is a monastery?

300
This is a sacred text in Hinduism in which Krishna explains the purpose of life.

What is the Bhagavad Gita?

300
These are what Harappans used to measure weight.

What are cubes?

300

This is the book that Kautilya wrote.

What is the Arthashastra?

300

This is a flat piece of land cut into a mountainside by humans so that they can grow crops.

What is a terrace?

400

According to Buddhism, this is the cause of all suffering.

What is desire or expectations?

400

In Hinduism, this structure leads to a unified and functioning society.

What is the caste system?

400

This is the reason Harappans built large mounds (dirt walls) around their cities.

What are floods?

400

This is where Ashoka wrote his ideas.

What are stone pillars (rock edicts)?

400

This is an object added to something to make it more attractive or beautiful.

What is an ornament?
500

This is the idea that someone should not be too extreme - for example not eat too much, or too little.

What is the Middle Way?

500

This will result in your reincarnation.

What is not doing your dharma or bad karma?

500

What is the reason the Harappans declined as a society?

What is - we are not sure!

500

This is the philosopher who thought that kings should spy on his subjects to make sure they pay their taxes.

Who is Kautilya?
500

This is a process to make related things all the same.

What is to standardize?