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Question | Answer |
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Because this region is so large and separate by water from other land areas it is called a? | Subcontinent |
Its the highest peak was remeasured in the late 1990s? | Mount evenest |
Then comes the _______ Season Which lasts from June through September? | Monsoon season |
From sources in the Himalayas they fan out to the east and west through the wide flat plain called the indo-Gangetic plain or the? | Indo-Ganges plains |
This process is called ___________ farming because people subsist or live on the food they grow? | Subsistence Farming |
The ____________ lies on the plain in Pakistan? | Indus River valley |
This region is called the _________? | Deccan Plateau |
Two of these cities _____ and ________were home to thousands of people ? | Harappa and Mohenjo-daro |
The Aryans spoke ______ a different language from other people who were living in the valley? | Sanskrit |
The ____ or books of knowledge contain these writings? | Vedas |
Priests and teachers or ___________help the highest position in society? | Brahmins |
The _________ or serf were given the lowest position in society? | sudras |
_________ is said to have been the founder of the perisian Empire? | Cyrus 2 |
King _______ 1 who fallowed Cyrus brought the Persian empire to India? | Darius 1 |
His grandson _________ took power in about 270 B.C. | Ashoka |
_________ is the main religion in India? | Hinduism |
There are four vedas the oldest of which is the _______ Veda? | Rig veta |
Some hindus recognize only one universal being __________ that is the source and final destination of everything? | Brahma |
_________ is the process through which a person goes from one life to the next? | Reincarnation |
In India every hindu is traditionally a member of a ____ a lifelong social group into which he or she is born? | Caste |
In the next century Emperor Ashoka spread _________ throughout South Asia? | Buddhism |
According to Buddhist tradition the man who became __________ was born during this period? | The Buddha |
According to buddhist tradition sitting silently under a tree near the town now called __________ Siddhartha meditated for a while? | Bodh Gaya |
The Buddha stress that people not just priest could achieve __________ or a state of pure goodness? | Enlightenment |
Buddhism is based on ______________about human suffering? | Four noble truths |
Buddhists also believe in the _____________ a way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering? | Eightfold Path |