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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a region that is so large and separated by water from other land areas? | Subcontinent |
| What's the highest peak and was remeasured in the late 1990's? | Mount Everest |
| What's another name for the rainy reason? | Monsoon Season |
| What ran out to the east and west through the wide,flat plain called the Indo-Gangetic plain? | Indo-Ganges Plain |
| What did the people do to trade foods with small groups of people in their village? | Subsistence farming |
| What lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
| What plateau has a land narrows toward the point of a diamond? | Deccan Plateau |
| What were the home to thousand to people? | Harappa and Mohejo-Daro |
| What is a different language from other people who were living in their valley? | Sanskrit |
| What is an another name for the"Books of Knowledge'' contain these writing? | Vedas |
| Who held the highest position in society? | Brahmins |
| What's another name for serfs? | Sudras |
| Who said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire? | Cyrus the Second |
| Who followed Cyrus,brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius the first |
| Who took power in about 270 B.C.? | Ashoka |
| What was the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
| Which Veda is the oldest? | Rig Veda |
| What was a source and final destination of everything? | Brahman |
| What is the process through which a person goes from one life to the next? | Reincarnation |
| What is a lifelong social group into which he or she is born? | Caste |
| What is a religion that was established in India in the fourth century B.C.? | Buddhism |
| What was born in the buddhist tradition? | The Buddha |
| What town was close to meditated for awhile? | Bodha Gaya |
| What is a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment |
| What are the Buddhism is based on what? | Four Noble Truths |
| What the Buddhists also believe on what? | Eightfold Path |