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100What is the Indus River?
The river of life that flows through present day China, India and Pakistan. It is India's most famous river.
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100What is the Harappan civilazation?
Archeologists cannot decipher this ancient Indian civilization's writing system.
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100What are vedas?
These are sacred songs introduced by the Aryans and are the foundation of Hinduism.
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100Where is Asia?
Buddhism is mostly practiced throught this continent.
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100What is a subcontinent?
A large landmass that is geographically separated from the rest of a continent.
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200What are the Himalayas?
The world's tallest mountains that separate India from the rest of Asia.
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200What is Mohenjo-Daro?
This city included brick buildings and a huge citadel. It had an advanced sewer system.
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200What is the caste system?
The vedas supported this way of dividing the Hindu society into four major classes of people.
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200What is karma?
A force believed by Hindus and Buddhists that is caused by a person's good and bad acts. It affects your future life.
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200Who was Bharata?
An Indian teacher of dance who lived 1500 years ago.
She taught hand gestures, importance of eyes/eyelash movement, and rules of the Indian dance.
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300What is Mount Everest?
The highest mountain peak in the Himalayas.
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300What is a strong local government?
The orderly layout of of large grain warehouses suggest that Mohenjo-Daro was ruled this way.
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300What is reincarnation?
Hindus believe that people live in a constant circle of birth, death, and rebirth. What is this belief called?
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300Who is the Buddha?
He was born as Soddjartja Gautama and grew up as a prince in Kosala, a northern kingdom near the Himalayas. His followers believed that he found the true meaning of life. They called him this.
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300What is Pakistan?
The country that borders India in the northwest.
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400What are The Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal?
The 3 bodies of water that surround India.
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400What is Mesopotamia?
Harappan merchants traded goods with this far away ancient civilization.
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400What is the dharma?
By following this, Hindus believe that people can break free of the cycle of reincarnation.
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400What is a monk?
An Indian man who devotes his life to a religious way of life.
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400What is central Asia?
The Ayrans, who herded cattle and sheep from horseback, were from this area but migrated across the Hindu Kush Mountains to Europe and India.
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500What is the Indus Plain?
The northern part of India where the dry desert-like land is flooded with fertile silt.
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500Who were the Aryans?
In 1500 BC these people migrated to the Indian subcontinent and brought new ideas.
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500What is Hinduism?
The belief in a link between a powerful, invisible force and everything in the world.
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500What is the Eightfold Path?
A set of instructions to end suffering and a guide to the proper way to live for Buddhists.
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500What is a citadel?
A walled fort that protects a city.
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