Religion
The belief that people live more than once in different bodies
What is reincarnation?
India's oldest religion
What is Hinduism
The mountains that stretch across northeastern India
What are the Himalayas?
Settlements that govern themselves and surrounding areas
What are city-states
A strong wind that carries rain to India
What is a monsoon?
Titled of highest position in the religion
What is Priest
In Buddhism, what is the only way to get rid of suffering?
What is letting go of worldy wants and desires
The ocean that boarders India
What is the Indian Ocean?
Another name for outcastes
Who were the untouchables?
Another name for a caste
What is a varna
This religion was tied to the Caste system.
What is Hinduism?
This religion began in India and spread to eastern Asia.
What is Buddhism?
The river that India was settled around.
What is the Indus River?
THe study of starts and planets
What is astronomy?
India is a large mass of land separated from the rest of Asia by landforms. What else can we call India?
What is a subcontinent?
Another name for Siddhartha Guatama
Who is Buddha?
The idea that you are rewarded or punished by things you did before.
What is Karma?
Mountain Range to the Northwest of India
What is the Hindu Kush Mountains
How many noble truths were there in Buddhism?
4
The practice of going without food.
What is fasting?
The state of complete peace in Buddhism
What is Nirvana?
Buddhists focus their mind on spiritual ideas. What is this practice called?
What is meditation?
India is a _____________ because it's surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
People who work to spread their religious beliefs.
Who are missionaries?
What is The Gupta Empire