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Question | Answer |
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what region is so large and separated by water from other land areas what is it called? | subcontinet |
what highest peak, was remeasured in the late 1900's? | mount Emverest |
what season is rainy, which is late June through September? | monsoon season |
what sources in the Himalayas, they fan out to east and west through in the wide, flat plain called? | indo-Ganges plains |
what lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
in what region is diamond called? | Deccan Plateau |
what two cities were called home to a thousands of people? | Harappa Mohenjo-Daro |
what language did the Aryans speak? | Sanskrit |
what is another word for ''books of knowledge''? | vedas |
what was the process called when people lived on the food they grew? | subsistence farming |
what is the highest position in the Aryans society? | Brahmins |
who were the people that were given the lowest position? | Sudras |
who is said to have been founder of the Persian Empire? | Cryrus ll |
who followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius l |
who took power in about 270 B.C.? | Ashoka |
what is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
what are one of the oldest Vedas? | Rig veda |
what is one of the final destination of every thing in Hinduism? | Brahman |
what is called when a person goes from one life to the next? | Reincarnation |
what is it called when a lifelong social group into which he or she is born? | caste |
In the next century, Emperor Ashoka what is spread throughout south Asia | Buddism |
What did Ashoka become in the sixth century B.C.? | The buddha |
what was a town where you could sit under a tree? | Bodh Gaya |
what was or a state of good pure goodness? | enlightenment |
what is buddism based on? | Four Noble Truths |
what is Buddhists believe in? | Eightfold path |