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Geography & Early India
Hinduism
Buddhism
Indian Empires
Indian Acievements
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This geographic feature might have prevented Buddhist missionaries from traveling directly north into Tibet and China.
What are the Himalayas?
100
Members of the Kshatriya castes worked as these.
What are rulers and warriors?
100
Siddhartha Gautama searched for the meaning of human life by doing these two things.
What are fasting and meditation?
100
Mauryan ruler who converted to Buddhism.
Who is Asoka?
100
A number system in use today whose roots trace back to the Gupta period.
What is Hindu-Arabic?
200
This river provided water and fertile soil that supported the rise of the Harappan civilization.
What is the Indus River?
200
This sacred texts from Brahmanism influenced Hinduism.
What are the Vedas and the Upanishads?
200
A state of perfect peace that frees the soul from suffering and reincarnation.
What is nirvana?
200
Empire that ruled India during a period of great artistic and intellectual achievement.
Who is Gupta?
200
The science of working with metals.
What is metallurgy?
300
The earliest known language in ancient India.
What is Sanskrit?
300
The religion influenced by Brahmanism and ideas from Central Asia.
What is Hinduism?
300
The Buddha accepted this idea from Hinduism.
What is reincarnation?
300
The founder of the Mauryan Empire.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
300
They were pioneers of this, the science of working with metals.
What is metallurgy?
400
These religious writings tell about Aryan society and the Aryan invasion of India.
What are the Vedas?
400
Guides developed by Aryans to keep the classes distinct and to provide rules for the caste system.
What are sutras.
400
He was the strongest Mauryan emperor.
Who was Asoka?
400
This helped Chandragupta Maurya rule the Mauryan Empire.
What is a complex government?
400
They practiced this to help them build up defenses to a disease.
What is inoculation?
500
The flooding of the Indus River supported the rise of early civilization by leaving this.
What is left behind a layer of fertile silt?
500
Farmers, craftspeople, and traders made up this caste.
What is Vaisyas?
500
According to the Buddha, suffering comes from these three things.
What are: wanting what we like but do not have, wanting to keep what we like and already have, and not wanting what we dislike but have.
500
The Mahabharata traditions contained these writings.
What are the writings about Hindu beliefs?
500
Indians were the first people to create this Hindu-Arabic numeral that we use today.
What is the concept of zero?