Geography of India
This term describes seasonal winds that bring rain to India.
What is a monsoon?
Two major cities of the Indus River Civilization.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Nomadic people who migrated into India between 2000–1500 BCE.
Who were the Indo-Aryans?
Founder of the Mauryan Empire.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
Religion that believes in reincarnation and karma.
What is Hinduism?
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are part of this region.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
Indus cities were laid out in this organized pattern.
What is a grid pattern?
Sacred texts that tell us what we know about the Indo-Aryans.
What are the Vedas?
Chandragupta Maurya used this to control his empire secretly.
What is a spy network?
The cycle of rebirth in Hinduism.
What is reincarnation?
Name ONE of India’s three major rivers.
What is the Indus, Ganges, or Brahmaputra River?
This advanced system carried waste away from homes.
What is a sewer system/drainage system?
The Indo-Aryans highly valued this animal.
What is cattle?
Emperor who converted to Buddhism after seeing the horrors of war.
Who was Ashoka?
How a person lives their life determines this in the next life.
What is karma?
These monsoons bring rain and can cause flooding.
What are summer monsoons?
Name ONE crop grown by the Indus people.
What is wheat, barley, rice, or cotton?
The language developed during the Vedic Age.
What is Sanskrit?
Laws carved into stone during Ashoka’s reign.
What are the Rock Edicts?
Founder of Buddhism.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)?
These monsoons bring dry air and cooler temperatures.
What are winter monsoons?
Around this year, the Indus River Civilization disappeared.
What is around 1500 BCE?
This social division later became the caste system.
What is the division of society by occupation?
Empire known as a Golden Age of art and science.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The Eightfold Path leads to this freedom from suffering.
What is nirvana?