Geography
This subcontinent includes the modern-day countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
These were the two major cities of the Indus River Civilization.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
These nomadic people migrated from Central Asia into India between 2000 and 1500 BCE.
Who were the Indo-Aryans?
This ruler founded the Mauryan Empire in 321 BCE.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
This religion is polytheistic and is a combination of different beliefs and practices.
What is Hinduism?
These three rivers supported ancient Indian civilizations.
What are the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra Rivers?
This fortified structure overlooked each Indus city.
What is a citadel?
This collection of sacred Hindu teachings tells us what little we know about the Indo-Aryans.
What are the Vedas?
This Mauryan ruler spread Buddhism after renouncing violence.
Who was Ashoka?
This belief explains how actions in one life affect rebirth in the next.
What is karma?
These seasonal winds greatly influenced farming and daily life in India.
What are monsoons?
Indus cities were organized using this city layout.
What is a grid pattern?
These leaders ruled Indo-Aryan clans or tribes.
Who were rajahs?
These laws were written on stone in local languages during Ashoka’s reign.
What are the Rock Edicts?
This concept refers to rebirth of the soul until spiritual perfection is achieved.
What is reincarnation?
This type of monsoon brings rain from the ocean and often causes flooding.
What are summer monsoons?
These city features included bathrooms with drains and underground sewers.
What are advanced sanitation systems?
Around 800 BCE, the Aryans began making tools from this metal.
What is iron?
This empire flourished in art and science under Chandragupta I and Chandragupta II.
What was the Gupta Empire?
In the beliefs of Hinduism, his principle of non-violence requires protection of all living things.
What is ahimsa?
This type of monsoon brings dry air and moderate temperatures.
What are winter monsoons?
This is one reason historians know little about the Harappans.
What is the lack of written records?
This written language was developed during the Vedic Age.
What is Sanskrit?
This iron structure commissioned by Chandragupta II has stood for over 1,600 years without rusting.
What is the Iron Pillar of Delhi?
In the beliefs of Hinduism, this ultimate goal represents release from the cycle of rebirth.
What is moksha?