Geography
This mountain range separates India from China and contains Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
What is the Himalayan mountain range?
The name of this tribal people translates to "aboriginal," meaning the first people in India.
What is adivasi?
This emperor of the Mauryan Empire was grandfather of Ashoka and fought with the general of Alexander the Great.
Who is Chandragupta?
This individual founded the Mughal Empire.
Who is Babur?
This was the name of the English company that took over India.
What is the British East India Company?
This religion, started by Siddhartha Gautama, is no longer widely practiced in India but is a major religion in China.
What is Buddhism?
This river runs in the northwest of India.
What is the Ganges River?
This ancient civilization had advanced cities and a writing system that we have not deciphered.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This was one of the powers that ruled in India after the fall of the Mauryan Empire.
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This Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal and a city called Shahjahanabad.
Who is Shah Jahan?
Mohandas Gandhi practiced law in this city in England.
What is London?
This epic tale tells the story of Prince Rama, who rescues his wife from the evil demon Ravana.
What is the Ramayana?
This dry and rugged region lies between the Indus River in the north and the Ghats mountains in the south.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
These ancient hymns contain the story of a cosmic man who was sacrificed, thus leading to four castes of Indian society.
What are the Vedic hymns?
During Ashoka's war with this region, over 100,000 people were killed and 100,000 more enslaved.
What is Kalinga?
The army and government officials of Akbar were ranked in a special system that has this name.
What is mansab?
This was the name of Mohandas Gandhi's practice of peaceful noncompliance.
What is satyagraha?
This religion was started by a figure named Mahavira around 600 BC.
What is Jainism?
Due to immense rainfall, the southwest plains of India are known for growing this type of crop.
What is rice?
This type of agriculture has been the way of life of the Adivasi.
What is "jhum" -- or slash-and-burn agriculture?
This was the name of Ashoka's writing system.
In this battle, Babur took over northern India by defeating the sultan Ibrahim.
What is the Battle of Panipat?
In this year, the Indian sepoys rose up in mutiny against the British East Indian Company.
What is 1857?
Who are the Pandavas/the Kauravas?