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Question | Answer |
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What is a part of land separated from water? | Subcontinent. |
What is the highest mountain in the Himalayas? | Mount Everest. |
What is it called when its a rainy season from June through September? | Monsoon season. |
What are the rivers that carry water and silt into farmlands to irrigate ? | Indo-Ganges Plain. |
What is it called when people live on food they grow? | Subsistence farming. |
What lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus river valley. |
What lies between the Arabian Sea and bay of Bengal? | Deccan Plateau. |
What was home to thousands of people? | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. |
What was a different language from other people who were living in the valley ? | Sanskrit. |
What was the books of knowledge? | Vedas. |
What held the highest position in society? | Brahmins. |
What was given the lowest position in society? | Sudras. |
Who was said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire? | Cyrus ll. |
Who followed Cyrus and brought the Persian empire to India? | Darius l. |
Who took power of India in 270 B.C. | Ashoka. |
What is the main religion in India? | Hinduism. |
What is a collection of more than 1,000 hymns? | Rig Veda. |
What is 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 life long social group in which in he or she is born into? | caste. |
What was spread through out south Asia? | Buddhism. |
Who was born during the sixth century? | The Buddha. |
What Siddhartha meditated for a while? | Bodh Gaya. |
What is a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment . |
What is about human suffering? | Four Noble Truths. |
What is a way of living that can help them find relief from there suffering ? | Eightfold Path. |