Religions
A universal spirit worshiped by Hindus.
Who is Brahman?
Was an Indian mathematician, physicist and astronomer of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy
Who was Aryabhata?
Made the first empire in 321 B.C.E
Who was Chandragupta?
Seasonal wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
What are monsoon?
The first written language of India
What is Sanskrit?
The rebirth of the soul.
What is reincarnation?
A person who travels to holy sites.
What is a pilgrim?
A Buddhist shrine, usually dome-shaped
What is a stupa?
A big landmass that is smaller than a continent
What is a subcontinent ?
Major cities had more than 35,000 residents.
What is Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
A emotional or spuritual state, a good feeling of peace.
What is Nirvana?
Capital of the Gupta Empire.
What is Pataliputra?
A person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.
Who are bodhisattvas?
Where the civilization's engineers and builders.
Who where the Indus valley people.
The custom of passing along stories by speech
What is the oral tradition?
A religion founded in ancient India by the religious teacher the Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
Creator of India's golden age and Chandragupta's son.
Who was Samudragupta?
A region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman
What is the Arabian sea?
Also known as the Harappan civilization is called the cradle of acient India.
What is the Indus River valley?
Ancient sacred writings of India.
What are Vedas?
The longest poem written in any language ever.
What is the Mahabharata?
Governed most of northern and central India from about 273 B.C.E to 232 B.C.E.
Who was Ashoka?
A doctor who repaired noses.
Who was Shushruta?
One of the mountain range separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
What is The Himalaya?
A large language family know as Indo-European.
What is a language family?