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Lily-India
India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a region so large and separated by water from other land areas? | Subcontinent |
| What is the highest peak that reaches 29,035 feet into the sky? | Mount Everest |
| What season, in South Asia lasts from June through September? | Monsoon Season |
| From sources in the Himalayas, they fan out to the east and west through the wide, flat plain called what? | Indo-Ganges Plain |
| What is it called when people subsist, or live on, the food they grow? | Subsistence farming |
| What lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
| What is at the land toward the point of a "diamond"? | Deccan Plateau |
| In the 1920s and 1930s, archaeologists uncovered several ancient cities in the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, two of these cities are what | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro |
| What is a different language from other people who were living in the valley? | Sanskrit |
| What are books of knowledge containing Sanskrit writings? | Vedas |
| What is another name for priests and teachers? | Brahmins |
| What is another name for serfs? | Sudras |
| Who is said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire? | Cyrus II |
| Who followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius I |
| Who took power in about 270 B.C and stretched the Mauryan Empire southward across the Deccan Plateau? | Ashoka |
| What is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
| There are four Vedas, what is the oldest Veda? | Rig Veda |
| What is the source and final destination of everything? | Brahma |
| 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 |
| In the next century, Emperor Ashoka spread what throughout South Asia? | Buddhism |
| According to Buddhist tradition, the man who became what was born during this period? | The Buddha |
| What is a town that Buddhist sit silently under a tree on Buddhist tradition? | Bodh Gaya |
| What is a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment |
| What is the list Buddhism use for human suffering? | Four Noble Truths |
| What is a way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering? | Eightfold Path |
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