Geography
the river that the earliest civilizations formed along
What is Indus River?
The earliest civilizations developed along the Indus river because of
What is fertile farmland?
The earliest religion of the Aryan people.
What is Brahmanism?
This was first empire in India and was begun by ____________________.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
Indian medicine is called
What is Ayruveda?
In the middle of this mountain range was the Khyber Pass that allowed foreigners to invade India.
What is Hindu Kush?
The group of people that migrated into northwest India.
Who are the Aryans?
This religion was formed after Brahmanism mixed with the local Indian beliefs and rituals.
What is Hinduism?
Ashoka, Chandragupta's grandson, expanded the empire to the south after he fought a war with ___________________.
What is Kalinga?
The Vedas, the Mahabharata (Bhagavad Gita), and the Ramayana are all examples of ____________________.
What is Sanskrit texts?
The tallest mountain range in the world that protected India from Chinese invasion.
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
Two major cities along the Indus River that were most likely destroyed by natural disasters.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Buddhism was begun by _________________ after he meditated under the ____________________.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
What is the Bodhi tree?
Seeing the devastation that he brought to Indians, Ashoka converted to __________________ and erected _____________________ to promote peace throughout his empire.
What is Buddhism?
What is pillar/rock edicts?
Two mathematical concepts Indians discovered were
What is the number 0 and the decimal system?
As winter ends, warm, moist air from the southwest Indian Ocean blows toward countries like India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
What are Summer Monsoons?
The era when the Aryans migrated into India.
What is the Vedic Era?
This is the belief that everyone who dies will be reborn.
What is reincarnation?
The preferred name of untouchables today is ________________ and they are treated equally/ unequally under law in modern modern India?
Who are Dalits?
What is equally?
Ancient Indians developed these fields of mathematics.
What is algebra and trigonometry?
This is seen as the most sacred river in India and where the Mauryan Empire was located.
What is Ganges River?
The social organization that the Aryans implemented was the ______________ and the order of the varnas are ______________, _______________, ________________, _______________, ________________.
What is the Caste system?
What are Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras?
1. Life is suffering.
2. The origin of suffering is desire.
3. To end suffering, end desire.
4. To end desire, follow the eightfold path.
What are the four noble truths?
Because of Ashoka, Buddhism spread to other parts of Asia along __________________.
What are trade routes?
Indian contributions to medicine include: medical textbooks, inoculation (vaccines), and _____________________.
What is plastic surgery?