Indian Geography
A period of heavy rain and wind that occurs every year in India
What is a monsoon?
A social hierarchy in the Hindu religion.
What is the Caste System?
What does the word "Budha" mean?
This early Indian civilization developed big cities with fortresses and indoor plumbing
Who were the Harappans?
The Indians were the first people to create this in the numeral system.
What is the zero?
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
The highest level of the Caste System was the Brahmins and their job was this.
What are priests?
The state of perfect peace that people can reach by following the Eightfold Path
What is "nirvana"?
This civilization started as nomads and warriors, but settled after taking over the Harappan civilization
Who were the Aryans?
The main language the ancient Aryans used
What is Sanskrit?
The river where Indian civilization first began.
What is the Indus River?
The process of being born again after you die.
What is reincarnation?
Buddhism is different from Hinduism because of these
It was against the authority of priests, rituals/animal sacrafices and the Caste System
The Gupta rulers promoted this religion because it strengthened their power to control the kingdom?
What is Hinduism?
The science of working with metals developed by the Indians.
What is metallurgy?
These protected India from invasion from the North.
What are the Himalayan Mountains and the Hindu Kush Mountain?
A person develops either good or bad of this depending on their behavior in life.
What is karma?
The 4 Noble Truths. All four.
What is all people suffer, people cause their own suffering, people can reach Nirvana, and they must follow the 8 Fold Path.
Asoka swore to do this after becoming a Buddhist.
What is he promised not to start anymore wars.
Injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to build up a defense against the disease.
What is inoculation?
The river close to Gaya, where Siddhartha Gautama found enlightenment under a tree.
What is Ganges River?
The major 3 gods in Hinduism are known as part of the universal spirit Brahman.
What is the Brahma the creator, Siva the Destroyer, and Vishna the Preserver?
One of the two branches Buddhism split into that became popular in China and Japan
What is Mahayana?
Asoka spread Buddhism by these ways? At least three.
What is missionaries, building schools, and building temples.
Name two things Indian astronomers knew about the solar system.
What is they discovered 7 of the 9 planets, knew the Earth rotated around the sun, the sun was a star, and the Earth was a sphere(round) and rotated on its axis.