Geography
This River is where the Aryans settled and Hinduism began.
What is the Indus River?
This scared text was hymns and rituals recorded over a long period of time.
What are Vedas?
This was the founder of Buddhism, AKA the Budda.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
This was Chandragupta’s grandson that killed his siblings to gain power.
Who was Ashoka?
This empire is much smaller than the Maurya
How would you describe the Gupta Empire compared to the Maurya
This River is the most important River in India and is Sacred to Hinduism.
What is the Ganges River?
This was the world's longest epic poem about war in India.
What is Mahabharata?
This is Buddhism's sacred text that is made out of teachings of the Buddha.
What was the Tripitaka?
These were chambers that punished anyone that challenged Ashoka's authority.
What was deep inside Ashoka's palace?
This religion was the main religion of the Gupta empire and was used as a unifying religon
What was the main religion of the Gupta
Traders used this natural occurrence to make trade quicker and easier.
How did monsoons affect trade in India?
This religion is Polytheistic with over 200 million gods.
What kind of religion is Hinduism?
Buddhism is a philosophy which means they don't worship any gods.
Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?
Maurya had a stable gov, wealth and trade, and many contributions.
How did Maurya have a golden age?
These were created by Gupta's and it expanded mathematics greatly.
How did the concept of zero and the number system help contribute to the Gupta golden age?
These mountains helped protect people of India from invaders.
How did the Himalaya Mountains help people in India.
This is a system that ranked people by occupation.
What was the caste system?
This is the goal of spiritual life.
What is Nirvana?
Chandragupta Maura unified subcontinents into one.
This was a very prosperous and large empire
What kind of empire did the Gupta rule