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100

The continent that India is found on.

What is Asia?

100
India is well known for being the first place to have these things that use running water.

What are toilets?

100

One Indian toy has this animal climbing up a rope.

What is a monkey?

100

These are the cardinal directions.

What are north, south, east and west?

100

The Harappan civilization is build around this river.

What is the Indus River?

200

This bird with beautiful tail feathers is common in India.

What is a peacock?

200

This is how tall Harappan houses were.

What is two stories?

200

This animal is found on many seals and pieces of pottery.

What is a bull?

200

This famous mountain range is in northern India.

What are the Himalayas?

200

About how long does it take to fly to India from the U.S.?

What is nine hours?

300

This is the highest peak in the world and is located in India.

What is Mount Everest?

300

Mohenjo-Daro homes were being built around the same time as these famous structures in Egypt.

What are the pyramids?

300

Merchants used these to keep track of what they bought and sold.

What are seals?

300

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

What is a peninsula?

300

The Harappans didn't have many of these, so they couldn't protect themselves very well.

What are weapons?

400

These are the two most well known cities in the Indus River Valley.

What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?

400

Harappan homes were made out of these.

What are clay bricks?

400

Name a famous board game invented in the Indus Valley.

What is snakes and ladders or what is chess?

400

Streets were set up in this kind of pattern.

What is a grid?

400

The people of the Indus Valley used to trade with this other ancient civilization.

What is Mesopotamia?

500

These two bodies of water surround India to the east and the west.

What are the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?

500

Harappan homes were built around these.

What are courtyards?

500

This is the material that Harappan pottery was made of.

What is terra cotta?

500

These are the two districts in Mohenjo-Daro.

What are The Citadel and The Lower Town?

500

These three months are when the wet monsoons, or storms, come to India every year.

What are June, July and August?