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india
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a subcontinent | The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. |
| what is mount Everest | Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. |
| what is the monsoon season | A monsoon is a seasonal shift in the prevailing wind direction, that usually brings with it a different kind of weather. |
| what are the indo-Ganges Plains | The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Indus-Ganga Plain and the North Indian River Plain, is a 630-million-acre (2.5-million km2) |
| what is subsistence farming | Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to feed themselves and their families. |
| what is indus river valley | The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE |
| what is the Deccan Plateau | The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in western and southern India. It rises to 100 metres in the north, and to more than 1,000 metres in the south, forming a raised triangle within the South-pointing triangle of the Indian subcontinent's coastline. |
| what is the Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | The civilization of the Indus River at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa arose at about 2500 BCE and ended with apparent destruction about 1500 BCE |
| What is Sanskrit | Sanskrit is a language of ancient India with a history going back about 3,500 years. |
| what is Vedas | The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. |
| what is the Brahmins | Brahmin is a varna in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers and protectors of sacred learning across generations. |
| what is sudras | Shudra or Shoodra is the fourth varna, or one of the four social categories found in the texts of Hinduism. Various sources translate it into English as a caste |
| who is cyrus 2 | Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid |
| who is darius 1 | Darius the Great or Darius I was the fourth Persian king of the Achaemenid Empire. |
| what is Ashoka | Ashoka, sometimes Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. |
| what is hinduism | Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. |
| what is rig veda | The Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. |
| who is brahma | is a creator god in Hinduism. |
| what is reincarnation | Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being starts a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death |
| what is cast | Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion. |
| what is buddhism | Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists. |
| what is the buddha | Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit or Siddhattha Gotama in Pali, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk, mendicant, sage, philosopher and teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. |
| what is bodh Gaya | Bodh Gaya is a village in the northeast Indian state of Bihar. Considered one of the most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, it's dominated by the ancient brick Mahabodhi Temple Complex, |
| what is enlightenment | Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift, |
| what is four nobel truths | is about humans. |
| what is eightfold path | it is a way of living. |
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