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INDIA
Question | Answer |
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What is a continent surrounded by water? | Subcontinent |
What is the tallest mountain in the world? | Mount Everest |
What is another name for rainy season? | Monsoon Season |
What is another name for Indo-Gangetic Plain? | Indo-Ganges Plain |
What is it called when a farmer only grew food only for his family? | Subsistence Farming |
What river lies in the plain of Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
What lies between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal? | Deccan Plateau |
What two cities were homes to thousands of people in India? | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro |
What is another name for "Books of Knowledge" | Vedas |
Who held the highest position in society in India? | Brahminds |
Who had the lowest position in India? | Sudras |
What is a different language from other people in the valley? | Sanskrit |
Who was the founder of the Persian army? | Cyrus ll |
Who was the man who brought the Persian empire to India? | Darius l |
Who took power in 270 B.C.? | Ashoka |
What is the main belief in India? | Hinduism |
What is the collection of more the one thousand hymns? | Rig Veda |
What is the source of the final destination of everything? | Brahman |
What is the process when a person has another body after death? | Reincarnation |
What is a lifelong social group into which he/she is born? | Caste |
What was spread throughout south Asia? | Buddhism |
A man born in the sixth century B.C. was considered what? | Buddha |
According to Buddhist tradition, sitting quietly under a tree near the town called what? | Bodh Gaya |
What is a name for a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment |
What is Buddhism based on? | Four Noble Truths |
Buddhist also believed in what? | Eightfold Path |