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100
Seasonal wind patterns
What is a monsoon?
100
The two main religions that began in India
What are Buddhism and Hinduism?
100
Another name for metal work?
What is metallurgy?
100
A system in India that treats certain people as inferior to other people
What is the caste system?
100
What is another name for Siddhartha Gautama?
What is Buddha?
200
What is the difference between the summer and winter monsoons?
What is the winter monsoon is drier than the summer monsoon?
200
Followers of Hinduism believe in one overarching force, what is the name of this force?
What is Brahman?
200
Indians created ____ solve multiple step mathematics problems?
What are algorithms?
200
In India, if you were born a farmer and lived a very bad life full of lies, stealing and cheating what do they believe you could be reborn as?
What is an untouchable?
200
Siddhartha Gautama said this was the cause of all human suffering
What is desires?
300
The world's tallest mountains, they separate India from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
300
A belief that one's soul will be reborn into something else upon that person's death is called
What is reincarnation?
300
The replacement of the Roman Numeral system
What is the Hindu-Arabic number system?
300
The religion that stressed the idea of ahimsa, or non violence to all living things.
What is Jainism?
300
Religious leaders leading the government
What is a theocracy?
400
India is so large and separated from the rest of Asia by water and mountains, it is known as what type of land?
What is a subcontinent?
400
In Hinduism this is the force that decides your next life, based on the actions of your present life.
What is karma?
400
The long sacred text with about 88,000 verses.
What is the Mahabharata?
400
What continent is India on?
What is Asia?
400
The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the first civilizations in the world. What two cities were at the center of this civilization?
What are Mohenjo Daro and Harappa?
500
East Indian river that empties into the Bay of Bengal (it is an Indian holy river)
What is the Ganges River?
500
Hinduism states that all people, plants, animals, and "things" are connected to the same force. The idea that is all people are "one" is called
What is monism?
500
What did the ancient Indians write in the area of literature?
What are poetry, fables, plays, religious and legal texts?
500
What emperor sent missionaries to other empires and territories to spend Buddhism?
Who was Ashoka?
500
The Buddha believed that to stop suffering one must know the _________________________________.
What are the Four Noble Truths?