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Question | Answer |
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What is a Subcontinent ? | a large area separated by water from the other lands |
What is the Mount Everest ? | its the highest peak was remeasured in the late 1990 s |
What are the Monsoon Season ? | the rainy season which lasts from June through September |
What is the Indo - Ganges Plains ? | a flat plain that is fan out to the east and west through the wide |
What is Subsistence Farming ? | the act of trading with a small group |
Where does the Indus River Valley lie ? | the plain in Pakistan |
What is a Deccan Plateau ? | at the point of the tip diamond where the land rises |
What are the Harappa Mohenjo-Daro ? | home to thousands of people |
What is Sanskrit ? | a different language from other people who were living in the valley |
What is Vedas ? | contain these writings |
What is Brahmins ? | held the highest position in society |
What are Sudras ? | were given the lowest position in society |
What is the Cyrus ll ? | to have been the founder of the Persian Empire |
What is Darius l ? | who followed Cyrus brought the Persian Empire to India |
What time did Ashoka power ? | took power in about 270 b.c |
What is Hinduism ? | the main religion in India |
What is the Big Veda ? | it is a collection of more than 1,000 hymns that priests recited at ceremonies and during rituals |
What is Brahman ? | is the source and final destination of everything |
What is Reincarnation ? | is the process through which a person goes from one life to the next |
What is Caste ? | a lifelong social group into which he or she is born |
What is Buddhism ? | a religion that is spread |
Who was The Buddha ? | was born during the sixth century b.c |
What was Bodh Gaya ? | Siddhartha mediated for awhile |
What is Enlightenment ? | a state of pure goodness |
What is Four Noble Truths ? | about human suffering |
What is Eight fold Path | a way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering |