Geography
The Indian ________ is made up of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Subcontinent
What river does the Harappan Civilization get its other name from?
Indus River
Between 2,000-1,500 BCE, these nomadic (traveling) people came into India from Central Asia.
The Indo-Aryans
Chandragupta Maurya was the first leader of this empire, which existed from 321-185 BCE.
Mauryan Empire
India gets is name from this body of water.
The Indus River.
India has had people living there for about this long.
250,000 years.
The two biggest _________ of the Indus Valley Civilizations were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
Cities.
These sacred Hindu books tell us what little we know about the Indo-Aryans.
The Vedas
The Mauryan Empire began after the death of this great Macedonian Emperor.
Alexander the Great
Ancient India was one of the first places to grow this.
Cotton
These seasonal winds bring mild temperatures and dry air in the winter, but rain from the oceans in the summer--which may cause flooding!
Monsoons
All Indus Valley Civilization cities had these overlooking them.
Citadel (fortress)
Indo-Aryans came through places like this mountain pass.
Khyber Pass
This empire had a Golden Age of peace and prosperity that began about 500 years after the Mauryan Empire ended.
The Gupta Empire.
The Ganges River empties into this body of water.
The Bay of Bengal
This mountain range, along with the Himalayan Mountains, helped limit contact with other people.
The Hindu Kush
Artefacts suggest that Harappans worshipped gods linked to these.
Natural forces.
After the Indo-Aryans became the dominant group in the regions around the Ganges and Indus Rivers, they developed powerful leaders called this.
Rajahs
Who built up the Mauryan empire to be 2/3 of India: Chandragupta or Ashoka?
Ashoka
Which civilization or empire was the smallest:
The Gupta Empire
The Indus Valley Civilization
The Mauryan Empire
The Indus Valley Civilization
These two places could not grow food very well, so not many people lived in them.
Thar Desert and Deccan Plateau
Possible reasons for the end of the Harappan, or Indus River Valley, Civilizations, are climate change, disease, and invasion, which happened around this year.
1,500 BCE
Around 800 BCE, the Indo-Aryans started this, by making iron tools.
The Iron Age
After viewing the horrors of war, Ashoka became a man of peace and followed this religion.
Buddhism
The Gupta Empire included all or part of these two mountain ranges that other empires and civilizations did not.
The Hindu Kush and the Himalaya Mountains