Geography
What best explains why India's winter monsoon winds are dry and cool?
What is The Himalayas block both the rain and cold air carried by the winter monsoon winds
The basic beliefs of Hinduism come from
What are The Vedas
Buddhism is based on the life and teachings of
What is A Hindu prince who searched for enlightenment (Siddhartha Gautama)
Which action would the caste system have prevented from occurring in ancient India?
What is A successful general becoming a scholar later in his life
What best describes the development of the Mauryan Empire?
What is It began with the unification of northern India by a single ruler and spread southward through future conquests
Which geographic occurrence led to the creation of the Himalayan Mountains?
What is The movement of continental plates
One Hindu sage observed that there were 330 million gods and goddesses in Hinduism. What is the best explanation for the large number of gods and goddesses in Hinduism?
What is To Hindus, all forms of life, as well as all forms of beauty and value, are considered diving beings
What action did Ashoka take to spread Buddhism?
What is He sent missionaries throughout India and to other parts of Asia
The caste system was outlawed in India in 1949. This action, however, did not eliminate caste-based discrimination or social divisions based on caste differences. Where would a person traveling to India today most likely notice caste-based divisions?
Where is In economically under-developed rural areas
What event took place after the death of Emperor Ashoka?
What is Hinduism returned as India's dominant religion
The Indian subcontinent is bordered by which two bodies of water?
What are The Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea
As Buddhism began to spread throughout India, which Hindu idea came to be challenged most directly?
What is Everyone should pay tribute to the many gods and goddesses of the universe
What explains why Emperor Ashoka had thousands of stupas build across India?
What is He wished to support the spread of Buddhist worship throughout his empire
What position do the Untouchables occupy in the Indian caste system?
What is They are outside of the caste system
An Indian artist living during Gupta times would most likely have produced
What is A bronze statue of Vishnu
What best describes how the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were similar?
What is Both had governments that played an important role in protecting the good supply
Which concept is reincarnation directly connected to in Hinduism?
What is Karma
After converting to Buddhism, Emperor Ashoka established many laws that followed Buddhist principles. What is an example of the kind of law that Ashoka would have written?
What is Execution may not be used as a punishment for any crime
What is the best argument against using a caste system to organize a modern society?
What best explains how mathematics benefited from the invention of the zero by Gupta mathematicians?
What is The zero makes is possible to use a placeholder system that shortens the writing of numbers and makes mathematical operations easier to perform
What best explains how the monsoons affected the development of early Indian civilizations?
What is The water brought by monsoon rains allowed agriculture to develop away from India's major rivers
What was the main value underlying the laws and edicts issued by Emperor Ashoka?
What is Nonviolence
What contributed the most to the spread of Buddhism throughout India?
What is The control of India by a Buddhist ruler
Around 500 BCE, what would a Dalit living in India have been required to do to survive?
What is Perform menial labor
Indian mathematicians working during the time of the Gupta Empire were responsible for which mathematical achievement?
What is A decimal system for writing numbers