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India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What region is so large and separated by water from other land areas it is called a what | Subcontinent |
| What highest peak was remeasured in the late 1990s | Mount Everest |
| What rainy season which lasts from June through September | Monsoon Season |
| What sources in the Himalayas they fan out to the east and west through the wide flat plain called the Indo-Gangetic plain or what | Indo-Ganges Plains |
| What process is called what because people subsist or live on the food they grew | Subsistence Farming |
| What lies on the plain in Pakistan | Indus River Valley |
| What region is called the what | Deccan Plateau |
| What Aryans spoke a different language from other people who were living in the valley | Sanskrit |
| What "Books Of Knowledge" contains these writings | Vedas |
| What Priests and teachers held the highest position in society | Brahmins |
| What serfs were given the lowest position in society | Sudras |
| What is said to have been the founder of the Persian Empire | Cyrus ll |
| What followed cyrus that brought the Persian Empire to India | Darius l |
| What took power in about 270 b.c. by that time the Mauryan Empire stretched southward across the Deccan Plateau | Ashoka |
| What is the main region in India | Hinduism |
| What are four Vedas the oldest of which is the what | Rig Veda |
| What Hindus recognize only one universal being the final destination of everything | Brahman |
| What is the process through which a person goes goes to one life to the next | Reincarnation |
| what is a traditionally a member of a lifelong social group into which he or she is born | Caste |
| What buddhist tradition the man who became born during this period | the buddha |
| What religion he founded was established in India in the fourth century in the next century Emperor Ashoka spread throughout South Asia | Buddism |
| What silently under a tree near the town now called Siddhartha meditated for awhile | Bodh Gaya |
| What stressed that people not just priest could achieve or a state of pure goodness | Enlightenment |
| What is based on about human suffering | Four Noble Truths |
| What also believe in the way of living that can help them find relief from their suffering | Eightfold Path |
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