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Question | Answer |
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What this region is so large and separated by water from other land areas? | subcontinent |
What is the highest mountain? | Mount Everest. |
This is the rainy season, which lasts from June through September. | monsoon season |
they fan out to the east and west through the wide, flat plain 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. | Harappa 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. | Sudras |
_______ is said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire | Cyrus II |
________ who followed Cyrus, brought the Persian Empire to India? | Darius I |
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? | Brahman |
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?? | Boda Gaya |
The Buddha stressed that people, not just priests, could achieve | Enlightenment |
Buddhism is based on What? | Four Noble Truths |
Buddhist also believe in the what? | Eightfold path |