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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a subcontinent? | A large area separated by water from other lands |
| What is Mount Everest? | The tallest mountain in the world |
| In India What is the season in which there is constant rain? | The Monsoon Season |
| What are the wide, flat plain called? | The Indo-Ganges Plains |
| What is subsistence farming? | The act of trading with a small group |
| What lies in the plains of Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
| What is the Deccan Plateau? | At the point of the diamond shape where the land rise |
| What two Indian cities where discovered between 1920s-1930s? | Harapa and Mohenjo-Daro |
| what was Indias form of writing? | Sanskrit |
| What are vedas? | Books of knowledge |
| What is another word for priest or teachers? | Brahmins |
| What are serfs also known as? | Sudras |
| Who was Cyrus II | The founder of the Persian Empire |
| Who was Darius I? | A follower of Cyrus who brought the Persian to India |
| Who was Ashoka? | Someone that took power in 270 b.c |
| What is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
| What is the oldest of the Four Vedas? | The Rig Veda |
| Who is the main god and its title? | Brahma, the creator |
| What is reincarnation? | The act of going from one life to another |
| what is a caste? | A lifelong social group into which he or she is born |
| What is Buddhism? | Another religion in India |
| who is the Buddha? | Someone that was born in the sixth century |
| What is the Bohd Gaya? | Was a person who sat under a tree in peace |
| What is a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment |
| Buddhism is based on? | The Four Noble Truths |
| What is the Eightfold Path? | A way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering |