Geography
Vocabulary
Hinduism
Buddhism
Misc.
100
Name two mountain ranges in South Asia
What is the Himalayas and Hindu Kush?
100
a large region separated by water from other land
What is subcontinent
100
Who founded Hinduism?
What is no one?
100
Who founded Buddhism?
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
100
This is the language of the Aryans.
What is Sanskrit?
200
Name a river important to the religion and livelihood of the Indian people.
What is the Ganges, Indus, or Brahmaputra?
200
another name for serf
What is sudra?
200
This is recognized as the one universal being in Hinduism
What is Brahman?
200
Name the Four Nobel Truths
What is 1.Suffering is part of life 2.People suffer because they want so much 3.If people free themselves from want they will not suffer 4.Follow the Eightfold Path
200
These are the two ancient cities uncovered in the 1920's in the Indus River Valley.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
300
This land formation lies between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal
What is the Deccan Plateau?
300
rainy season
What is monsoon season?
300
This god called the creator.
Who is Brahman?
300
Siddhartha did not like to see
What is suffering?
300
Reincarnation is a belief in this religion
What is Hinduism?
400
The monsoon season lasts for this long.
What is from June through September?
400
families who grow food just for themselves
What is subsistence farming?
400
This god is considered the preserver.
Who is Vishnu?
400
This is a lifelong social group into which someone is born.
What is a caste?
500
This lies on the plain in Pakistan and is one of the world's oldest civilizations.
What is the Indus River Valley?
500
the process through which a person goes from one life to the next
What is reincarnation?
500
This god is considered the destroyer.
Who is Shiva?
500
Name the caste levels in order from most important to least, and identify the religion associated with it.
What is priests and teachers, rulers and warriors, farmers and merchants, and servants. The religion associated is Hinduism.