Geography
A large landmass that is set apart from a larger continent by land or water.
What is a subcontinent?
The one spiritual god of the Hindu religion.
What is Brahman?
What branch of mathematics was first introduced in Ancient India?
What is calculus?
A system of offices that carries out government rules and regulations?
What is a bureaucracy?
The process of growing food mainly for self consumption.
What is subsistence farming?
The two mountain ranges that separate the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush?
The two main religions of Ancient India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
What language was developed in Ancient India?
What is Sanskrit?
The ruler of the Mauryan Empire that set up stone pillars across the empire.
Who is Asoka?
This river valley made it possible for Ancient India to have a thriving economic system.
What is the Indus River Valley?
The river that flows across the northwestern part of the Indian subcontient.
What is the Indus River?
A state of pure goodness.
What is enlightment?
Sculptures often portrayed this god of Buddhism.
Who is Buddha?
Name one of the two groups from Mesopotamia that ruled Ancient India.
Who are the Persians?
Who are the Assyrians?
The three items that became very valuable and desirable exports.
What are silk, cotton and linen?
The river that flows across the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Ganges River?
The rebirth of the human soul.
What is reincarnation?
During the Gupta Empire temples were made out of this material instead of wood.
What is stone?
The empire that followed the Mauryan Empire?
What was the Gupta Empire?
These three things made it possible for the Mauryan Empire to create secure trade routes.
What are better roads, more security and the use of coins?
The two bodies of water that border the Indian subcontinent on the east and the west.
What are the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea?
A state of blissful peace.
What is Nirvana?
The development of these helped develop an educated society.
What are schools?
A position in society with political rights and obligations.
What is citizenship?
A system were families would pool their resources to invest in business ventures.
What is a joint family system?