Landscape
These are seasonal winds that bring cold, dry air in the Winter and wet, warm air in the Summer.
What are Monsoons?
This is the reason that little is known about Indus culture.
What is the lack of a deciphered language?
This is the current name given to the rigid social system set up by the Aryans.
What is the Caste System?
This belief determines life circumstances such as caste, health, wealth, poverty, etc. based on good or bad deeds done in a previous life.
What is Karma?
This is the first of the Four Noble Truths.
What is 'all life is suffering'?
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by this mountain range to the north.
What are the Himalayas?
This Egyptian discovery made hieroglyphics translatable.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This group existed outside of the Aryan social system and included those with 'unclean' occupations.
What are the Untouchables?
Hindus believe in this form of rebirth because they think that moksha cannot usually be attained in one lifetime.
What is Reincarnation?
This is the Buddhist form of the Hindu moksha, or enlightenment.
What is Nirvana?
These two major rivers of India both carry rich silt like the rivers of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What are the Indus and Ganges?
Cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa display evidence of a centralized government based on what two pieces of evidence?
What are planned cities and advanced plumbing?
This writing was sacred to the Aryans, consisting of prayers, incantations, and ritual instructions.
What is the Vedas?
While the word 'atman' describes the individual soul, this other word describes the world soul that contains all atmans.
What is Brahman?
Buddhism teaches that one must follow this ruleset for life in order to reach enlightenment.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This dry region is located in the southern peninsula.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
Soil exhaustion, earthquakes, floods, and invasion are all reasons for this.
What is the disappearance/fall of the Indus Civilization?
Some scholars believe that the Aryan peoples came from the Indo-Europeans, originating from what region?
What are the steppes of lower Russia/between the Caspian and Black Seas?
This is the word used to describe how a person can achieve a perfect understanding of all things.
What is Moksha?
This young prince left his palace home and explored the world, noting the life was filled with suffering. He later meditated and it is claimed that he received enlightenment, becoming the Buddha.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
These are two environmental challenges faced in the Indus Valley.
What are unpredictable floods/drought/changing river course based on sediment deposition?
Indus trade networks extended all the way to this other river valley civilization.
What is Ancient Sumer?
This great epic of India reflected the struggles of the times and told of a warrior prince aided by the god Krishna.
What is the Mahabharata?
Hindu teachers wrote these to explain the hidden meanings of the Vedas.
What are the Upanishads?
He was the founder of Jainism who thought that every living thing had a soul.
Who is Mahavira?