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Move from place to place.
What is migrate?
100
One of the world's oldest religions that grew out of Aryan belief.
What is Hinduism?
100
The geographical mountain range that is the source of the Indus River.
What are the Himalayas?
100
The people known as Indo-Europeans who lived a nomadic lifestyle.
Who are the Aryans?
100
The name for people who move from place to place.
What are nomads?
200
The name for heavy rains and wind in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia.
What is a monsoon?
200
He founded Buddhism?
Who is Siddartha Gautama?
200
The major physical feature that made farming possible in India.
What is the Indus River?
200
The ancient Indian city where archaeologists found very few artifacts.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
200
An artifact that could depict daily life in an ancient city such as Mohenjo-Daro.
What is a seal?
300
A massive fort.
What is a citadel?
300
The Buddha means......
What is "Awakened One?"
300
Name three geographical landforms of India.
What are the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Deccan Plateau, Indus Plain?
300
True or False? The Aryan culture learned farming and crafts from the Harappans.
What is true?
300
A man who devotes his life to religion.
What is a monk?
400
The ancient Indian language.
What is Sanskrit?
400
Hindus believed in birth, death, and rebirth. This is known as....
What is reincarnation?
400
Name one problem the Indus River caused.
What is flooding?
400
True or False? The Harappan culture learned ancient songs from the Aryans.
What is true?
400
A force caused by a person's good and bad acts.
What is karma?
500
A way of organizing people into different levels.
What is a caste system?
500
The laws and duties that Hindus followed that told them how to live.
What is dharma?
500
Name a problem the Indus River caused and a solution to the problem.
What is flooding? Built dirt walls and used irrigation. What is wildlife? Used slings and clay balls to scare birds away. Built dirt walls.
500
Name two reasons for the possible migration of the Aryans.
What is drought, famine, disease, or invaders may have driven them away?
500
The books containing ancient Aryan songs about how the world works.
What are Vedas?