Geography
The mountains that include Mt. Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
The main job of most people in Ancient India.
What is farming?
A religion that began in India and believes in many gods and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
A number system that Ancient India created that we still use today.
What are Hindu-Arabic numerals (or the number zero)?
The first emperor to unify most of India.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
An ancient Indian civilization alongside the Indus River.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
The main material Ancient Indians used to make clothes.
What is cotton?
The belief that actions in this life affect your next life.
What is karma?
A religious text that Ancient Indians wrote down.
What is Sanskrit?
A Mauryan emperor who spread Buddhism after the Battle of Kalinga.
Who was Ashoka?
An ocean that borders India to the south.
What is the Indian Ocean?
A system that determined people’s roles and jobs in Ancient Indian society.
What is the caste system?
The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
What is reincarnation?
A mathematical concept that Ancient India developed involving circles.
What is geometry, or the concept of pi?
An empire known for a golden age of art, science, and math.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The way the subcontinent affected civilization in Ancient India.
What is separating Ancient India from other civilizations, with natural barriers?
The type of homes Ancient Indians in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa lived in.
What are mud brick houses with indoor plumbing?
A religion started by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
An advanced city built by Ancient Indians with a sewer and a drainage system.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
A leader who spread Buddhism by supporting missionaries and helping to build monasteries.
Who was Ashoka?
The three bodies of water that provide the boundaries for the Indian peninsula.
What are the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Bay of Bengal?
One advanced feature of cities in the Indus Valley?
What is a sewer/drainage system?
The ultimate goal, in Hinduism, when a soul unites with Brahman.
What is moksha?
Objects made from steatite that feature animal imagery and pictograms.
What are seals?
Traded his life of privilege to become a religious seeker.