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Question | Answer |
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What is called when the region is separated by water and land areas? | Subcontinent |
When was Mount Everest remeasured? | In the late 1990s |
What is Monsoon Season know as? | The rainy season |
What word is also know as Indo Ganges Plains | Indo Gangetic Plain |
What process grows food for themselves and they don't usually trade? | Subsistence farming |
Where does Indus River vally lie on? | In Pakistan |
Where does the region Deccan Plateau lie on? | It lies between the Arabian sea and Bay of bengal |
What cites were uncovered by scientists and where home of thousands of people? | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro |
What is Sanskirt? | It is a language that Aryans spoke |
What name is also know for vedas? | ''Book of knowledge" |
The Brahmins held the high position of what? | In society |
Sudras are also know as what? | Serfs |
Who is said to be the finder of the Persinan empire? | Cyrus the 2th |
Who followed Cyrus the 2th and brought the persian empire to india? | Darius the 1st |
Who took the power of his grandfather? | Ashoka |
What is Hinduism? | It is the main religion in india |
Which is the oldest vedas? | Rig veda |
What is Brahman? | Is the source and final destination of everything |
What is Reincarnation? | The process through a person does from one life to the nezxt |
What is caste? | A lifelong social group into which he or she is born |
Who spread Buddhism? | Emperor Ashoka |
When was the Buddha born? | In the Sixth century B.C |
What is Bodh Gaya now? | Sitting silently under a tree near the town |
Why were the priests so stressed? | Because it is difficult for the town to achieve enlightenment |
What is Buddhism based on? | it is based on Four Noble Truths about human suffering |
What does Buddhists believe in? | They believe in the Eightfold Path |