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Mohenjo-Daro
Buddhism
Hinduism
Geography
Indian Empires
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Earliest know city discovered in 1921 BCE in India.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
100
The new baby could walk and talk at birth.
What was unusual about Siddhartha when he was born?
100
One of the worlds oldest religions based on a belief in a supreme power called Brahman.
What is Hinduism?
100
Indus River begins here.
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
100
Emperor of India from 265 to 238 BC who carved edicts into walls, rocks, and tall pillars.
Who is Asoka?
200
The nearby rivers, the Sarasvati and Indus, offered water for irrigation, transportation, cleaning, and a food source.
Why did the early Indians settle where they did?
200
The prince's name that became the great Buddha.
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
200
Books of ancient writing.
What are the Vedas?
200
Highest peak of the Himalaya Mountains.
What is Mount Everest?
200
This empire ruled India in the first unification and was instrumental in the spread of Buddhism.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
300
Pottery, jewerly, and sulptures found in Mohenjo-Daro.
What artifacts were found in Mohenjodaro?
300
The three forms of suffering; old age, sickness, and death.
What did Prince Siddhartha discover when he finally left the castle?
300
Hinduism organized it's society based on this class system which is called this.
What is the caste system?
300
The Indus River enabled farmers to do what to their fields.
What is irrigate and grow crops with the fertile soil from the river run-off?
300
To promote Buddhist values, general welfare, justice, and security.
What are the four main goals of Ashoka's edicts?
400
Most likely for religious reasons. Possibly to "cleanse the soul" or "wash away sins".
What were the great baths used for?
400
Buddha decided that life is ruled by.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
400
The continuing circle of birth, death, and rebirth is called.
What is Samsara or reincarnation?
400
Monsoons
Besides rivers and lakes, what was the main thing that helped provide water to India?
400
This was the golden age of ancient India.
What was the Gupta empire?
500
The sewer systems.
Possibly their greatest achievement, what did they design and build that allowed them to have bathrooms in individual houses?
500
The buddha explained that to end suffering, people should follow this.
What is the Eightfold Path?
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Five classes of the caste system.
What is 1. priests/scholars, 2. rulers/warriors, 3. herders/merchants, 4. servants, 5. untouchables ?
500
Ganges
What is the river in India that not only provides fertile soil, but is famous for being the destination for pilgrimages?
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The main things the Gupta Empire is best known for.
What are architecture, universities, literature, painting, sculpture, metalwork and mathematics?