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Mountain range blocking the Indian subcontinent from Asia
What is Himalayan?
100
This is a social group one is born into and can't change.
What is caste?
100
What is the force that decides how people will be born into their next lives?
What is karma?
100
Who founded India's first empire?
Ashoka
100
This type of writing was invented in Indus valley villages
What is Sanskrit?
200
Major river in India; begins with a "G."
What is Ganges?
200
The Kshatriyas caste contained which people?
What is warriors and rulers?
200
The personal duty one must follow to be a better being in the next life.
What is dharma?
200
What was the first dynasty in India?
Who is Chandra Maurya?
200
This long poem is about a perfect king who rescues his wife Sita from an evil king.
What is the Ramayana?
300
Nomadic people who entered the Indus Valley in 1500 BC
What are the Aryans?
300
This is the prince or leader of an Aryan tribe.
What is raja?
300
An emotional or spiritual state of perfect peace and happiness
What is nirvana?
300
What dynasty reunited Northern India after the Maryan dynasty failed?
What is Gupta?
300
This Indian invention affected the study of mathematics and science.
What is the idea of zero?
400
These strong seasonal winds affect India's climate.
What are earthquakes?
400
Early Indus valley cities were remarkable for having this way of dealing with old water and sewage.
What is drainage and sewer systems?
400
What is one of the oldest religions in the world and is the world's third largest religion today?
What is Hinduism?
400
Who founded Buddhism during the 500s BC?
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
400
This is the idea that means "practice nonviolence towards all living thing"
What is ahimsa?
500
This twice-yearly occurrence made it easy to grow food in the Indus Valley.
What is flooding?
500
What were the large cities of the Indus Valley civilization built of?
What is brick?
500
This is a Buddhist shrine shaped like a dome.
What is a stupa?
500
This leader became horrified by battle and became a man of peace.
Who is Ashoka?
500
This is the American town where kids lived out "ahimsa" to end segregation.
What is Birmingham, AL?