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India-Natalie
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Question | Answer |
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What is a region that is separated by water from other land areas? | Subcontinent |
What is the highest peak? | Mount Everest |
What season lasts from June through September? | Monsoon Season |
What Fans out to the east and west through the wide flat plain? | Indo-Ganges Plains |
What is it when families grow food for them and to trade? | Subsistence farming |
What lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus River Valley |
What lies between the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal? | Deccan Plateau |
What are homes that belong to thousands of people? | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro |
What language does the people from the Valley speak? | Sanskrit |
What is the "Book of knowledge called? | Vedas |
What held the highest position in society? | Brahmins |
Who was given the lowest position in society? | Sudras |
Who was said to be the founder of the Persian Empire? | Cyrus 2 |
Who followed Cyrus and brought the Persian empire to India? | Darius 1 |
Who took power in about 270 B.C ? | Ashoka |
What is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
What is a collection of more than 1000 hymns that priest recited at ceremonies and during rituals? | Rig Veda |
What is the source and final destination of everything? | Brahma |
What is process through which a person goes from one life to the next? | Reincarnation |
What is a life long social group into which he or she is born? | Caste |
What did emperor Ashoka spread throughout South Asia? | Buddhism |
According to the buddhist tradition the man who became blank was born during this period? | The Buddha |
In which town is where there is a tradition of sitting silently under a tree? | Bodh Gaya |
What is the state of pure goodness? | Enlightment |
What is buddhism based on about human suffering? | Four Noble Truths |
What is a way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering? | Eightfold Path |