Indus Valley
Major river of Northeastern India.
What was the Ganges?
Ruler of an Aryan city-state.
What was a Rajah?
Members of the lowest class in the Indian social system.
Who were the untouchables (outcasts)?
Cause of human suffering renounced by the Buddha.
What is desire?
Hero of the Ramayana.
Who was Rama?
The major religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
One of the twin cities of the Indus Valley?
What is Harrapa or Mohenjo-Daro?
The Aryans praised these people.
Who were the warriors?
The top class in the social system.
Who were the Brahmans?
Meaning of the title 'Buddha'.
What is 'The Enlightened One?"
Social system invented to prevent intermarriage between classes.
What was the Caste System
The movement of souls from one being to another.
What is reincarnation?
The major river of the Indus valley?
What was the Indus river?
The Aryans recognized how many different types of marriage.
What is 4?
Another name for your caste.
What is Varna?
Founder of Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
Period of Indian History from 1000 to 500 B.C.
What was the Epic Age?
Animal especially sacred to Hindus.
What is the cow?
Many Historians can only guess at what the Indus Valley daily life was like.
What is we cannot read their writing?
The type of writing used by the Aryans.
What is Sanskrit?
Following the rules of your caste.
What is Dharma?
State of complete happiness and peace in Buddhism.
What is Nirvana?
Domed building where they kept relics of the Buddha.
What were stupas?
Destiny, for a Hindu.
What is Karma?
The Indus Valley was advanced because archaeologists have found these under their cities.
What are sewer systems?
We know about the Aryans because they recorded their deeds in these sacred books.
What are the Vedas?
The penalty for not following the rules of your caste when you die?
What is being reincarnated as an animal?
Place where Buddha found enlightenment.
What is under a Bo (fig) tree?
Rulers who controlled India during a 'golden age' from 320 - 535 A.D.
Who were the Guptas?
Two of the three gods of the Hindu trinity.
What are Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva?
This brought about the end of the Indus Valley civilization.
What is nobody is really sure what brought about the end.
The remnants of the Indus Valley civilization belonged to this group in Aryan society.
What is the Sudras?
The reward when you have good karma and followed your Dharma.
What is being reincarnated in a higher caste?
These troubled Buddha on his first few trips from the palace.
What was someone sick, someone old, and someone dead?
This Indian ruler converted to Buddhism after witnessing the carnage of a great battle.
Who is Ashoka?
This popular physical activity has origins in Hindu ideas and practice?
What is yoga?