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Climbing the Pyramid
Land of India
Religions of India
Kingdoms of India
The good old days
100
This group of people are so low they are not even in the pyramid caste system
What are the untouchables?
100
What is the name of the main landform in the southern 2/3rds of Inda
What is the Deccan plateau?
100
This is the enlightened one
What is the Buddha?
100
This is the largest kingdom of India's history
What is the Mauryan empire?
100
What revolutionary development did houses of the early twin cities have, that we have not seen before in other cultures?
What is indoor bathrooms?
200
This group of people make up the lowest part of the pyramid and are usually menial servants
What are the sudras?
200
What are seasonal winds that blow through India?
What are monsoons?
200
This is the belief system that believes in reincarnation and the caste system.
What is Hinduism?
200
This religious temple was built by the great Mauryan leaders, many times for Buddhist teaching.
What is a stupa?
200
These are BOTH twin cities of ancient India
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
300
This group of priests are at the top of the pyramid
What are the brahmins?
300
This is the direction warm monsoons blow over India.
What is East, left to right, or from ocean to the land?
300
This is what it's called when fate determines your direction of reincarnation
What is karma?
300
What empire saw the golden age of India, along with arts and many advances in math & science.
What is the Gupta kingdom?
300
This is the group of people who move in from the north, developing a new Indo-European culture.
Who are the Aryans?
400
Each level of the caste system is called this
What is a varna?
400
This is the river where the ancient twin cities develop
What is the Indus river?
400
This is what jainists use to describe complete non-violence
What is ahimsa?
400
This is the longest poem of Indian history
What is the Mahabharata?
400
People found this type of writing in many ancient tablets and journals
What is sanskrit?
500
This group of warriors make up the second level of the pyramid
What are the kshatriyas?
500
This is the mountain chain north of India where the highest mountain is located.
What are the Himalayas?
500
This is the type of Buddhist that believes Buddha is a god.
What is a Mahayana Buddhist?
500
This hero of the Bhagavad Gita must fight his own family for control of India
Who is Krishna?
500
These are the journals where sanskrit writing was found
What are vedas?