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Planned Cities on the Indus
The Indo-Europeans
Hinduism and Buddhism Develop
India's First Empires
Trade Spreads Indian Religions and Culture
100
This phenomenon has the biggest influence on the Indian subcontinent' climate.
What are monsoons?
100
These people migrated from the steppes.
Who were the Indo-Europeans?
100
In Hinduism, these are good or bad deeds.
What is karma?
100
This man was the first person to unify the many kingdoms of India.
Who was Alexander the Great?
100
This caused Hinduism to become distanced from common people.
What were complex rituals and sacrifices?
200
These two portions of land make up the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Deccan Plateau?
200
This group of people occupied Anatolia and created an empire.
Who were the Hittites?
200
These were the three personalities of Brahman.
What were Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva?
200
Chandragupta's son and successor, Asoka, encouraged this religion after the slaughter at Kalinga.
What was Buddhism?
200
These trade routes were used in trade between India, Rome, western Asia, and China.
What were the Silk Roads?
300
These were all the barriers that protected Indus civilization from attack.
What were the desert, ocean, rivers, and mountains?
300
This epic is about the struggles Aryans faced while moving south.
What is the Mahabharata?
300
In Hinduism, this is a state of perfect understanding of all things.
What is moksha?
300
This was the kind of government led by Chandragupta.
What was a bureaucratic government?
300
This Indian writer wrote one of ancient India's most famous plays, Shakuntala.
Who was Kalidasa?
400
Ancient Indian religion was a basis for this modern religion.
What is Hinduism?
400
This the number of years that the Hittite Empire dominated southwest Asia.
What was 450 years?
400
This person was the founder of Buddhism.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
400
Seleucus first sent this person as an ambassador to India.
Who was Megasthenes?
400
This is the Hindu god that is the destroyer of the world.
Who is Shiva?
500
These were all the civilizations that the ancient Indians traded with.
What were Afghanistan, Persia, and Mesopotamia?
500
The Indo-Europeans began migrating from the steppes during these years.
What was 1700-1200 BC?
500
This is another name for the Eightfold Path.
What is the Middle Way?
500
They ruled the kingdom of Magadha until Chandraguptas rose to power.
Who were the Nandas?
500
This surgery is commonly mistaken to be a modern development, but was pioneered by the ancient Indians.
What is plastic surgery?