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India EOC
India
Question | Answer |
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What do you call water separated from other land areas ? | Subcontinent |
Whats the mountain that has the largest peak and was remeasured in the late 1990 | Mount Everest |
It is the latest season witch lasts from June through September | Monsoon season |
It is a flat plain called the Indo Ganges it is also called ? | Indo Ganges Plains |
Many families grow food just for themselves.Sometimes they trade food with small groups of people in their villages what is it called? | Subsistence farming |
The _____________________________ lies on the plain in Pakistan | Indus river valley |
South of the Indo-Ganges Plains this land is called what ? | Deccan Plateau |
____________ AND ____________ were home to thousands of people | Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro |
The aryans spoke this language what is it. | Sanskrit |
The _________ or "Books of Knowledge" | Vedas |
Priests and teachers, or _________ what is it? | Brahmins |
The ________ or serfs, were given lowest position in society. | Sudra's |
_______ is said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire | Cyrus |
________ who followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius |
His grandson took power in about 270 b.c. | Ashoka |
This is the main religion in India | Hinduism |
There are four vedas, the oldest of which is the what? | Rig Veda |
Some Hindus recognize only one universal being what? | Brahma |
This is the process which one person goes to another life | Reincarnation |
_______ a lifelong social group into which he or she is born | Caste |
Emperor Ashoka spread _________ throughout South Asia | Buddhism |
The man who became who? | The Buddha |
This is a town that change their name sitting silently under a tree near the town now called WHAT?? | Bodh Gaya |
The Buddha stressed that people, not just priests, could achieve | Enlightment |
Buddhism is based on What? | Four Noble Truths |
Buddhist also believe in the what? | Eightfold Path |