Key Terms
This is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
This is the largest religion in India today and 3rd largest religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
The name "Buddha" was given to this man.
Who is Siddhartha?
This is the study of the stars and planets.
What is astronomy?
These are the amount of lessons that are in Unit 6.
What are four lessons?
These are seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons.
What are monsoons?
This religion is the 4th largest religion in the world and the second largest in India.
What is Buddhism?
These are people who spread their religious beliefs.
Who are missionaries?
This is the number system we use today created by Indian scholars during the Gupta dynasty.
What are Hindu-Arabic numerals?
This is the shortest month of the year.
What is February?
This is the most important language of ancient India.
What is Sanskirt?
This religion based on the teachings of a man named Mahavira who teaches that all life is sacred.
What is Jainism?
This is the name of an Indian priest.
Who is a Brahmin?
This is when a person is injected with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease.
What is inoculation?
Egypt is apart of this continent.
What is Africa?
This is the mixture of 2 or more metals.
What are alloys?
These are the three major gods that make up the Brahman.
Who are Brahma, Shiva, & Vishnu?
This is the creator of the religion Jainism.
Who is Mahavira?
This Indian epic tells the story of a prince named Rama, who was the god Vishnu in human form.
What is The Ramayana?
This is the continent that India is apart of.
What is Asia?
This divided Indian society into groups based on a person’s birth, wealth, or occupation.
What is the Caste System?
This is a monotheistic religion created in the 1400s based on the teachings of the Guru Nanak.
What is Sikhism?
This is the name of the creator of the religion Sikhism.
Who is Guru Nanak?
This one of the world's longest literary works and tells a story about the struggle between two families for control of a kingdom.
What is The Mahabharata?
June has this many days in it.
What is 30?