Geography
Mountain range that separated and protected ancient Indian peoples.
What is flood?
What are the Vedas?
Maurya territory extended throughout most of this subcontinent.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
This empire ruled over much of this part of India.
What is northern India?
Western river of India that the Indus Valley civilization formed around.
What is the Indus River?
What is Harappa?
Mountain range in which the Aryans migrated into India.
What are the Hindu Kush?
Greatest ruler of the Maurya Empire.
Who is Ashoka?
Schools related to this school of thought were developed during this time period.
What is philosophy?
Eastern river of India that the Aryan people would settle along.
What is the Ganges River?
Western city of the Indus River Civilization.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
Modern-day religion that can potentially be traced back to the Aryans.
What is Hinduism?
Founder of the Maurya Empire.
Who is Chandragupta?
Invention of printing on this was invented during this empire.
What is cloth?
Wind pattern that is considered the "lifeline" of ancient India.
What are monsoons?
Defining feature of the Indus River Civilization that no other civilization is known for.
What are sewage systems?
Social hierarchy created by the Aryans.
What is the caste system?
Chandragupta was known for his mounted soldiers on this animal.
What are elephants?
Mathematical system that was developed during this time period.
What is the decimal system?
Reason(s) that Civilizations could form within the Indian subcontinent.
What is the river(s) provided reliable water, food opportunity, fertile soil, transportation, etc.?
Pattern on which the planning of Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa were built.
What is grid-like pattern?
This explained what caste you were part of.
What is one's birth?
Ashoka the Great converted to this religion during his reign.
What is Buddhism?
Nickname for the Gupta Empire.
What is the "Golden Age" of Ancient India?