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Ancient India
6th Grade Social Studies Ancient India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Karma | Effects that good and bad actions have on a person's soul |
| What was the name of the 1st civilization to develop along the Indus River | Harappan |
| Hinduism believes in 3 major Gods. What are they? | Brahma, Siva, Vishnu |
| In the late 400's AD who was the group to invade India and drain the Gupta Empire of its wealth and power? | The Huns |
| The ideas of the Vedic Texts blended with ideas from other cultures and this created the religion know as | Hinduism |
| The Harappans made achievements in what | city planning, art, writing |
| What is the system called that divides Indian society into 4 Varnas based on birth, wealth or occupation | Caste System |
| When Asoka was ruler of the Mauryan Empire he did things to make the lives of his people better examples of these are | Had wells dug and roads built Planted Shade trees and build rest houses along roads |
| A man named Mahariva was unhappy with the control of the Brahmins so he became a monk and created a new religion called | Jainism |
| What was the 2nd civilization to migrate to India | Aryans |
| Hindus and Buddhist believe that they will be reborn many times after death. What is this called | Reincarnation |
| Gupta scholars were skilled in math and science. They developed something that we use today what is it | Numbers |
| People who follow Jainism follow 4 main principals in their efforts to injure no life they practice what? | Non-Violence |
| What was the most important language of ancient India | Sanskrit |
| What is the state of perfect peace known as | Nirvana |
| The Gupta's were also skilled in medical sciences. They knew how to protect people from disease by injecting them with a small dose of the virus to help build up defense to the disease. What is this called? | Inoculation |
| Who was the famous Indian leader who strongly believed in non-violence | Gandhi |
| One of the spiritual practices of Hindus is to take a bath in what river? | Ganges River |
| Why are many of the ideas of Buddhism similar to Hinduism | Because The Buddha was a member of the Hindu religion |
| What would happen to someone who broke one of the rules of the caste system | They would become an untouchable |
| Why were Aryan priests called Brahmins | Because their religion was Brahmanism |
| Buddhism accepted much of what Hinduism taught but they rejected some things. What were some of the things they rejected? | The Caste System, The ideas in the Vedas, the sacred rituals, and the authority of the Brahmin |
| Aryan religious writings were called | Vedas |
| Buddha taught that anyone could reach enlightenment by following his teachings known as | The Eight Fold Path |
| Who was the famous Buddhist follower that was an Indian ruler. He helped spread the Buddhist religion and was the strongest ruler of the Mauryan Empire. | Asoka |
| What are the 2 main religions of India | Buddhism and Hinduism |
| How did the Buddha free his mind when he was searching for wisdom to his questions about life | He fasted and meditated |
| What was the role of the missionaries | To work to spread the Buddhist religion to other areas |
| Who were the key rulers of the Gupta Empire | Candra Gupta I and Candra Gupta II |
| Under the Gupta rule what were some of the restrictions/limitations for women? | 1. Couldn't choose their own husbands 2. Expected to serve husbands 3. Widows had a lower social status |
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