Continents & Oceans
India Geography
Indus River Valley Civilization
Hinduism
Hindu Gods
Hindu Caste System
Buddhism
The Eightfold Path
100

The name of what's labeled A.

What is Europe?

100

This river is the heartbeat of India and one of the most significant rivers on the planet.

What is the Ganges?

100

This is the name of the most famous city in the lost Indus River Valley civilization.

What is Mohenjo Daro?

100

This is a central difference between Hinduism and other major world religions.

What is not having a single founder or origin?

100

The Creator

Who is Brahma?

100

Priests or scholars.

Who are Brahmins?

100

This is Enlightenment, escape from the cycle of rebirth, in Buddhism.

What is nirvana?

100

This principle of the Eightfold Path forbids lies and abusive talk.

What is right speech?

200

This is labeled C.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

Just south of the Indus River is this hot dry area of India.

What is the Thar Desert?

200

The writing system of the Indus Valley River Civilization, called the Indus or Harrapan Script, is India's first writing system and cannot be this.

What is cannot be read or translated?

200

These sacred texts of Hinduism contain Hindu beliefs.

What is the Upanishads?

200

The Preserver

Who is Vishnu?

200

Merchants / farmers / business class.

Who are Vaishyas?

200

According to Buddhism, suffering is caused by this.

What is craving?

200

This principle of the Eightfold Path calls for a belief that all are equal.

What is right understanding?

300

This is labeled K.

What is South America?

300

In the north, this forms the highest mountain range in the world and slope southward into a large fertile plain that covers much of north India.

What is the Himalayas?

300

These are examples of the arts in the Indus River Valley civilization.

What are jewelry, toys, games, and dancing figures?

300

These sacred texts of Hinduism are a collection of religious literature (including hymns, prayers, poems, etc.) containing eternal truths.

What is the Vedas?

300

The Destroyer / Transformer.

Who is Shiva?

300

Shudras.

Who are the servants / peasants?

300

This is the name of the prince who lived a life of luxury until age 29 and would become the Buddha.

What is Siddhartha Gautama?

300

This principle of the Eightfold Path calls for an awareness of self, one's own feelings, thoughts, body.

What is right mindfulness?

400

This is labeled G.

What is Australia?

400

Three mountain ranges surround this river in the northwest of India.

What is the Indus River?

400

We can be fairly sure that the Indus River Valley Civilization had a social system because of this evidence.

What are differing housing in different neighborhoods of the cities that indicates wealthier and poorer classes?

400

This is what the Hindu concept of ahimsa means.

What is non-violence?

400

The river goddess.

Who is Ganga?

400

The warriors and rulers.

Who are the Kshatriyas?

400

This prophecy, made at his birth, set the course of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, who would become the Buddha.

What is that he would either rule the world or become an important holy man?

400

This principle of the Eightfold Path tells us to develop good attitudes.

What is right effort?

500

This is labeled L.

What is the Southern Ocean?

500

Moving south, this geographic feature covers most South Central India.

What is the Deccan Plateau?

500

This is the most impressive technology in the Indus River Valley Civilization, which wouldn't be seen again for 2000 years in the Roman Empire.

What is a sewer system?

500

This is what the Hindu concept of dharma means.

What is one's life's duty?

500

The Remover of Obstacles

Who is Ganesha?

500

The formal name of the outcasts, the untouchables, who do the dirtiest jobs like handling human waste.

What is Dalits?

500

These Buddhists choose to stay in the cycle of rebirth to help others to nirvana.

Who are Mahayana Buddhists?

500

This principle of the Eightfold Path admonishes Buddhists to keep a strong commitment to the teachings of Buddhism.

What is right intention?