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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? | subcontinent |
what highest peak, was remeasured in the late 1900's? | Mount Everest |
what season is rainy, which is late June through September? | Monsoon Season |
what sources in the Himalayas, they fan out to the east and west through the wide, flat plain called? | indo-Ganges plains |
what process when people subsist, or live on, the food they grow? | Subsistence farming |
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? | Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro |
what language did the Aryans speak? | Sanskrit |
what is another word for"books of knowledge"? | Vedas |
what is the highest 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? | Cyrus ll |
who followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius l |
who took power in 270 B.C.? | Ashoka |
what is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
what are the oldest Vedas? | Rig Veda |
what is one of the final destination of everything in Hinduism? | Brahma |
what is called when a person goes from one life to the next? | Reicarnation |
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 it spread throughout south Asia? | Buddhism |
what did Ashoka became in the sixth century B.C.? | The Buddha |
what was the town where you could sit under a tree? | Bodh Gaya |
what was or a state of good pure goodness? | Enlightement |
what is Buddhism based on? | Four Noble Truths |
what Buddhists believe in? | Eightfold Path |