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What is a subcontinent? a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.
What is Mount Everest? Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
What is the Monsoon Season? It is the rainy season
What is Indo-Ganges Plains? The rivers carry water and slit into farmlands to irrigate and enrich the fields.
What is subsistence farming? When the people only make enough for there family and very little to sell.
What is Indus river valley? lies on the plain of Pakistan.
What the Deccan Plataea? The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in western and southern India.
What is a Harrappa and Mohenjo-daro Were homes of thousands.
What is Sanskrit? A different language from other people who were
What is Vedas? ''Books of knowledge''
What is Brahmins? The highest position in society.
What is Sudras? Serfs
Who is Cyrus II ? Founder of the Persian Empire
Who is Darius the first? Followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India
Who is Ashoka? A Grandson of Chandragupta that took rule of the empire
What is Hinduism? The main religion in India
What is the Rig Veda? A book that is recited during ceremonies and during rituals.
What is Brahma? The source and final definition of everything.
What is reincarnation? The process though which a person goes from one life to the next
What is the caste? A lifelong social group into which he or she was born in
What is Buddhism? It is a religion.
What is the Buddha? A person, a man who is the founder of Buddhism.
What is the Bodh Gaya? sitting silently under a tree near a town.
What is enlightenment? The state of pure goodness
What is the four nobles of truths? It is about human suffering
What is the Eightfold path? A way of living that can help end human suffering
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