Geography
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This small country is located North of India.
What is Nepal?
These people were the first to go out, meditate, and find answers to the big questions about life.
Who are gurus?
This man founded Buddhism.
Siddhartha Gautama
Archeologists discovered remains of two Indus River Valley civilization cities. Name one!
What are Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
Name three qualifiers that an empire would typically have to be considered a "Golden Age."
What are
achievements (in math, science or technology)
stability
wealth
culture
prosperity
This is the the river where the first ancient civilizations of India were located.
Indus
This is the most important of all the gods.
Who is Brahman?
Buddha meditated to find an end to this.
What is suffering?
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The Maurya Empire got very big and was eventually broken into smaller regions that had their own government. These were called...
What are provinces?
Brahmans typically held these 2 jobs.
What are Priests and teachers
This river in eastern India empties out into the Bay of Bengal/Indian Ocean.
Ganges River
The idea that if you live a good life, good things will happen to you.
Karma
This is the state of perfect wisdom.
What is enlightenmet?
This is the language in which the Vedas, the sacred texts of Hinduism, were composed, making it directly linked to the Vedic Age, a period in ancient Indian history where these texts were orally transmitted and later written down.
What is Sanskrit?
Name one mathematical advancement made by the Gupta Empire.
What are
decimal system
the number 0
trigonometry
pi
The weather pattern bringing strong rains in the summer and dry air in the fall.
monsoon
The final goal of the 4 goals of Hinduism.
What is moksha?
Siddhartha was born in this modern day country.
Nepal
Put these periods of time in chronological order:
Vedic Age
Gupta Empire
Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro Civilization
Mauryan Empire
What is
Harappan/Monhenjo-Daro Civilization
Vedic Age
Mauryan Empire
Gupta Empire
This religion became popular around the same time as Buddhism and its core belief was ahimsa, non-violence to all living things.
What is Jainism?
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Besides India, these are 3 other countries that the Himalayas run through.
What are Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan?
This is the first goal of doing what is right, or a person's duty.
What is Dharma?
These are religious communities where Buddhists could/can stay to study and meditate.
What are monasteries?
When Asoka ruled the Mauryan Empire, he erected these so the people of his empire could read his laws.
What are edicts?
Buddhism spread all across India and then to this small country to the south of India.
What is Sri Lanka?