Vocabulary
This seasonal wind brings heavy rains to India.
What is a monsoon?
These tall mountains protect India and help shape monsoons.
What are the Himalayas?
Hindu sacred texts written in the ancient language Sanskrit.
What are the Vedas?
This ancient Indian city had brick homes, drainage, and sewers.
What is Mohenjodaro?
China’s cold, northern desert.
What is the Gobi Desert?
A strong fortress that protects a city.
What is a citadel?
This desert is hot, dry, and difficult to settle.
What is the Thar Desert?
In Hinduism, this is your duty to live morally.
What is dharma?
This leader unified India and built roads and hospitals.
Who is Ashoka?
China’s longest river.
What is the Yangtze River?
This belief says everything is part of one spiritual force.
What is monism?
This plateau has rocky soil and unpredictable rainfall.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
The Buddha discovered that extreme self-denial does NOT bring this.
What is peace or enlightenment?
Empire known for the concept of zero and a golden age of learning.
What is the Gupta Empire?
Early Chinese civilization began on this plain.
What is the North China Plain?
The rebirth of a soul after death.
What is reincarnation?
These two mountain ranges block rain on India’s coasts.
What are the Western and Eastern Ghats?
Name two things Siddhartha saw that made him question life.
Answer: What are old age, sickness, or death (any two)?
He spread Buddhism after the Battle of Kalinga.
Who is Ashoka?
This dangerous desert in western China is known as “the place you go in and don’t come out.”
What is the Taklimakan Desert?
A person who gives up all worldly possessions to focus on spiritual life.
What is an ascetic?
This river was home to one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
What is the Indus River?
This Buddhist teaching includes eight “right” practices.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This empire was ruled by Ashoka before he converted to Buddhism.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
This high plateau is called the “Roof of the World.”
What is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau?