Indus Valley
The two mountain ranges that border India to the north.
Hindu Kush and ________________.
What are the Himalayas?
The people who moved into the Indus Valley after the Harappan civilization died out.
Who were the Aryans?
Hindu's worship many gods.
polytheistic or monotheistic.
polytheistic
A name or title that means "enlightened one".
What is the Buddha?
This person conquered India after Alexander the Great destabilized the kingdoms there.
Chandra Gupta I
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
The two river systems in the north of the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Ganges and Indus river systems?
The language spoken and written in during the Vedic Period.
What is Sanskrit?
The cycle of rebirth for the spirit.
What is reincarnation?
The name of the man who became the Buddha.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
This was the first major empire founded in ancient India.
What was the Mauryan Empire?
The two biggest cities founded in the Indus Valley civilization.
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
The social classes or hierarchy of ancient India.
What was the caste system?
The force generated by doing good and evil in one's life.
What is karma?
The name of Buddha's teachings includes the following:
1. Suffering exists
2. Desires cause suffering
3. Suffering can be ended
4. The Eight fold Path
What are the Four Noble Truths?
This person was the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya and expanded the Mauryan Empire.
Ashoka, Chandragupta, Chandra Gupta I
Who was Ashoka?
This ocean is located south and southeast of India.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Another name for the untouchables.
l a d t s i
What are the Dalits?
Is a central moral system, or a code, that Hindus follow.
Moksha, Dharma, Karma
What is Dharma?
The concept of perfect peace through spiritual growth and meditation.
What is nirvana?
This empire lasted for a few hundred years and declined in the 700s AD.
p t a g u
What was the Gupta Empire?
These seasonal winds have blown over South Asia for thousands of years.
What are monsoon winds?
Put the different groups of people in the proper order from the Hindu caste system.
Vaisyas, Sudras, Brahmin, Kshatriyas, Untouchables
Brahmin, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras, Untouchables
Ultimate goal of Hinduism.
Dharma, Reincarnation, Karma, Moksha
What is Moksha?
Hinduism is the first, second, or third largest religion in the world.
What is third?
This person founded the Gupta Empire.
Ashoka, Chandragupta, Samundragupta
Who was Samudragupta?