Geography Of India
Seasonal winds in India.
What are monsoons?
Siddhartha Gautama.
Who is the Buddha?
The rebirth of the soul.
What is reincarnation?
This is the language that the Vedas were written in.
What is Sanskrit?
He is the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
Who is Chandragupta?
The mountain range that has the tallest mountain in the world.
What is the Himalaya?
This is what Buddhists would reach when they are free from all earthly concerns.
What is Nirvana?
This is the one universal spirit that Hindus believe in.
What is Brahman?
This collection of stories, poems, prayers, etc, were written in Sanskrit.
What are the Vedas?
He is Chandragupta's grandson.
Who is Ashoka?
The dry highland that takes up two thirds of southern India.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
In Buddhism, these would help people seek spiritual truth.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
In Hinduism, this is based on what people did in past lives, and depending if it was good or bad, they would be reborn into a higher or lower form of life.
What is karma?
These are the two Dravidian languages.
What is Tamil and Telugu?
These are Buddhist shrines that Ashoka built throughout India.
What are stupas?
This is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
This is what Buddhists follow to end suffering.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This is a Hindu's personal duty to society, and their obedience to the law of the universe.
What is dharma?
This is the language that the people in South Asia spoke during the Vedic Period.
What are the Indic languages?
The Mauryan Empire declined after this ruler's death in 232 B.C.E.
Who is Ashoka?
These are the three great rivers that flow throughout the subcontinent.
What are the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra?
These are the two groups that Buddhists divided Buddhism into.
What is Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism?
These are the most important four deities in Hinduism.
Who are Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Sarasvati?
The Indic and Dravidian languages would result in this single single culture in India.
What is the "Vedic" culture?
This was the Mauryan Capital under the rule of Chandragupta.
What is Pataliputra?