True/False
Ancient Indians
Hinduism
Buddhism
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Essay
100
These people disappeared for multiple reasons:
1. invasion
2. flood
3. famine
Who are the Harappans?
100
This group of people had a written language called Sanskrit and influenced life in both ancient and modern India.
Who are the Aryans?
100
The Aryans developed a religion called this.
What is Hinduism?
100
Siddhartha Gautama was meditating when he became ________.
What is enlightened?
100
22
What is the Ganges River?
100
Hinduism's beliefs:
1. Hinduism = many gods
2. good works to get into a better state in your reincarnated state
3. live multiple lives through reincarnation.
Christianity's beliefs:
1. One God
2. God in Jesus did the work to save His people
3. One life, one judgment from God.
200
People's minds in the past are just as smart as ________ minds today.
What are our minds?
200
The Aryans were famous for their hymns, __________, and prayers.
What is poetry?
200
The two basic social groups in Hinduism are the family and the __________.
What is the caste?
200
The religion was named after Siddhartha's second name and was called ___________.
What is Buddhism?
200
23
What is Harappa?
300
Water from the Indus River and the fertile soil in the ________ Valley supported agriculture for the Harappans.
What is the Indus Valley?
300
This is the belief that someone comes back in another form.
What is reincarnation?
300
The belief that everything in the universe is part of the supreme being is called this.
What is pantheism?
300
Siddhartha Gautama introduce the Four Noble ________.
What are truths?
300
24
What are the Himalayan Moutains?
400
The _________ civilization made a lot of achievements.
What is the Harappan civilization?
400
He was a distrustful ruler who spied on his subjects and established a government and strong military.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
400
This is the name of the divine being.
What is Brahman?
400
Gautama changed his name to __________.
What is Buddha?
400
25
What is India?
500
He discovered the two cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which helped archaeologists and historians to begin to understand India's past.
Who is Sir John Marshall?
500
He was tolerant, united the Indian subcontinent, and one the greatest rulers of the Mauryan Empire.
Who was Asoka?
500
Asoka built thousands of dome-shaped buildings called _____, and he sent missionaries into the country, thus expanding Buddhism.
What are stupas?
500
26
What is the Indus River?
600
Buddhism appealed to the lowest caste, _____________, who would believe the (false) hope that if they did their duty and died, they would have a better life next time.
Who are the lower castes and outcastes?
600
27
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
700
28
What is Pataliputra?