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India EOC
India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |