Important Terms
What are detectives who dig for clues?
Who are archeologists
What are the 2 major Sanskrit Epics(stories) in Ancient India?
What are the Ramayana and Mahabharata
What does the word "Aadi" mean in Sanskrit?
What is "First"
After they got married, what did Ganga make Shantanu promise before she married him?
What is that he would never question her actions?
What two important things did Stone Age people learn to make?
What is stone tools and fire?
What are the Names of the 3 big rivers that start at the Himalayan mountain range?
What is Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra?
Which of the ancient epics are longer - The Ramayana or the Mahabharata?
What is the Mahabharata?
Which book number is Aadi Parva in the Mahabharata?(Hint: Aadi Parva is also known as the "Book of the Beginning")
What is book/Parva 1
Why did Shantanu finally break his promise to Ganga?
What is that she kept drowning their babies right after birth, and he stopped her from drowning the 8th one
What happened once Stone Age people learned to farm?
What were villages growing into towns and cities?
What is the name of the snowy mountain range of ancient Northern India?
What are the Himalayas
How many books, or Parvas, make up the Mahabharata?
What is 18?
Many great kings lived during the Lunar dynasty. Name 2 of these kings
Who are Yudu, Puru, Bharata and Kuru?
When Shantanu fell in love with Satyavati, her father agreed to the marriage on one condition: "Only Satyavati's future sons must become the kings of Hastinapur, not Ganga's." Devrata/Bhishma was made aware of this condition, and he gave up 2 things in his vow — the Bhishma Pratigna. What were they?
What are the throne, and the right to ever marry?
What did the monsoon rains help grow, and how did the winds also help traders? People prayed to Indra, the god of thunder, for these reasons.
What was that they watered wheat, rice, and forests — and sailors used the winds to sail to India and trade.
What is the river that inspired of India?
Who were the 3 people who:
1. Asked to write the Mahabharata? 2. Who wrote it? 3. Who helped write it?
Who are Brahma, Sage Vyasa, and Ganesha?
Why did Pratipa, the king of Hastinapura, refuse to marry Ganga after she found him attractive?
What is it that Pratipa is already married and refused to marry another woman?
Why did Kunti place baby Karna in a basket and send him down the river?
What is that She was afraid of what people would think, since she wasn't married yet?
What were railway workers doing with old bricks that helped lead to the discovery of Harappa?
What is that they were reusing the ancient bricks for train tracks?
What was India's first-ever name? And what was it named after?
What is Jambudvipa? Named after the Jamba or Jamun, the purple fruit
What were the conditions of both Sage Vyasa and Ganesha about writing the Mahabharata?
What were:
Ganesha demanded that Vyasa recite the entire text continuously with no breaks, but Vyasa countered that Ganesha could only write a verse after he had fully understood its meaning
What does Aadi Parva mainly talk about?
What is the birth and early life of the Kuru princes/kingdom?
After King Vichitravirya died without any children, Satyavati asked her son Vyasa to help continue the royal family line. Vyasa fathered three children with the two widowed queens and a servant girl — but each child turned out very differently because of how the mother reacted to Vyasa. Explain what happened with each of the three women, and name the son each one had.
Satyavati asked Vyasa to father children with Vichitravirya's widows so the throne would have an heir. Because Vyasa was a powerful, intense-looking sage, each woman reacted with fear in her own way, and that affected her baby:
Describe what made a Harappan city special — both how it was laid out and how the people who lived there spent their days.
The cities were laid out in a neat grid of streets, with wide main roads, a walled Citadel on high ground, and even drains and trash bins. People living there ate wheat, rice, and fruit, wore cotton clothes with jewelry, and their kids played with clay toys like carts with moving wheels.