After Alexander the Great left India, this military leader built a strong army and unified India.
Who is Chandra Gupta Maurya?
100
These are Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or burial mound.
What are stupas?
200
The highest mountain range in the world, it is home to the highest pike in the world above sea level
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
200
What makes Hinduism different from other religions
What is there is no one founder.
200
Buddhists believe that when you are finally free from all earthly concerns, you will reach this. It is not a physical place . It is a feeling of perfect peace and happiness.
What is nirvana?
200
The Golden Age of India occurred during this dynasty.
What is the Gupta Empire? (or dynasty)
200
the first written language in India
What is Sanskrit?
300
The two main rivers in India
What are the Indus and the Ganges?
300
Hindus believe that people's status in life is not an accident. It is based on what they did in past lives. In addition, the things people do in this life decide how they will be reborn. If someone leads a bad life, they will be reborn into a lower form of life. If they lead a good life, they will be reborn into a higher life form. This ideas is known as.....
What is karma?
300
A personal duty that a Hindu must follow to earn a better existence in the next life. Each person's is different.
What is dharma?
300
This leader converted to Buddhism after looking over the scene on a battlefield.
Who was Ashoka?
300
This describes the caste system.
What is four basic caste groups, and people could not change their caste?
400
Strong winds that carry seasonal rains
What are monsoons?
400
Training your mind to focus and think in positive ways.
What is meditation?
400
Buddha's fourth truth says that people can end suffering by following this.
What is the Eightfold Path?
400
These three advances in math took place during the Gupta period.
What is infinity, use of 0, and symbols for the numbers 1-9?
(advances in algebra)
400
Buddhism appealed to a wider range of people than Hinduism because of this.
What is Buddhism treated all people equally?
500
Migrating from central Asia, the Aryans brought two important cultural features that affected India and the Hindu religion.
What are the Vedas and the caste system?
500
Nonviolence against all living things, this is the key value of Jainism.
What is ahimsa?
500
This is how Buddhism spread to lands outside of India.
What are missionaries?
500
According to Buddha, people suffer because of this.
What is "people suffer because they desire worldly things and want to satisfy themselves?
500
These archaeological finds were found at the city of Mohenjo Daro: indoor plumbing for toilets and showers; a sewer system and garbage chutes, streets laid out in patterns, and this.....