India- Geography
The mountain range in the north east region of India
What are the Himalayan mountains
In ancient India, people's life circumstances were determined by this
What is the caste system?
Originally a Hindu spiritual discipline, the physical poses are popular for health and relaxation in many Western countries
What is yoga?
Your opinion. What you believe is going on in the picture
What is think?
What two mountains formed around India?
Himalayan and Hindu Kush
Is an Elephant a God in India?
No
The name of the Aryan writing/language system
What is Sanskrit?
The bottom people on the caste system that wasn't even considered a part of the caste system because they were so rejected.
What are untouchables?
The main reason we do see think wonder. What we get out of it.
What is the purpose and the why behind the image
Main river in India
What Is the Indus River?
What is the name for the following ideas:
1) Life is filled with suffering and sorrow.
2) The cause of all suffering is people’s selfish desire for the temporary pleasures of this world.
3) The way to end all suffering is to end all desires. 4) The way to overcome such desires and attain enlightenment is to follow the Noble Eightfold Path
What are the Four Noble Truths?
Invention with holes that was near the Great Bath that people could use?
What is toilets
India's English-speaking population is _______
1) the largest of any country in the world
2) the third largest of any country in the world
3) an unknown size, due to bureaucratic & administrative issues
4) the smallest of any country where English is an official language
India's English-speaking population is 1) the largest in the world
India is considered a sub continent. What makes it a sub continent?
Because of its size and its separation (due to the mountains) from the Asian continent, the land mass that contains India is known as this
Define these words:
1. Karma
2. Reincarnation
BONUS
**Moksha
1) Karma: the cycle of cause & effect of actions ("what goes around, comes around!")
2) Reincarnation: when the soul leaves the body (after death) and returns to a new body
**Moksha the Hindu version of Heaven
This mathematical idea was invented in India
What is the modern numeral or decimal system
What environment similarity did the ancient Egyptian and Indian civilizations share?
What is unpredictable flooding?
What blocked off India from the rest of the Continent?
Mountains
meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, and believe in a wheel of rebirth into different bodies. This is connected to “karma,” which refers to how a person’s good or bad actions in the past or in their past lives can impact them in the future.
What is Buddhism?
Why we don't know more about the Indus Valley society?
What is they had a writing system that we have not been able to translate (no Rosetta stone!)
How many official languages does India have?
What are 22 official languages?
(Twenty-two!)