Question | Answer |
_protected the city from floods and enemy attacks | Citadel |
The Harrapans created a _____ to kept the city clean. | Sewer System |
Mohenjo- Daro had ____people living in the city. | 40,000 |
Harappan homes were made of _______. | Brick |
Harappans traded with ___which was 1,000 miles away. | Iraq |
__ people from central Asia and Russia crossed the Hindu Kush mountains through the Khyber Pass and came into the Indus Valley. | Aryan |
the cycle of birth, death & rebirth | reincarnation |
A man who devotes his life to a religious group | monk |
a force caused by a person’s good & bad acts which affects future lives | karma |
the laws & duties of a Hindu person’s caste | dharma |
Founder of the religion of Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama |
Name of the Hindu Spring Festival | Holi |
Name of the Hindu New Year | Divali |
The Hindu “Books of Knowledge” are called the ____. | Vedas |
The laws and duties of a Hindu’s caste are called ___. | dharma |
A way of organizing people into hundreds of different levels is called the __. | caste system |
Hindu who does not follow the dharma of his/her caste would be reincarnated into ___ in his/her next life. | a lower caste |
A Hindu who lives a good life and follows the dharma of his/her caste would be reincarnated into ___ in his/her next life. | a higher caste |
The priests are the highest class and come from which part of God’s body___? | mouth |
Vishnu, Devi, Ganesha and Shiva are examples of Hindu ___. | gods/goddesses |
The "Buddha” means ___. | Awakened One |
During Buddha’s discoveries in the garden he saw ___. | An old man, a sick man & a dead man |
The Eightfold Path represents the ____ of living for Buddhists | Middle Way |
“Life is filled with suffering” is part of the __. | Four Noble Truths |
The Indus River begins in the | Himalayas |
India is considered a ___________________ because it is geographically separated from the rest of the continent. | subcontinent |
The Indus Plain is described as ____________________ before the important silt is spread throughout the plain to enable farming. | dry and desert like |
___make the Indus River swell and overflow its banks. | melting snow |
Ancient Indus Valley farmers built____ to hold back the flood waters. | walls |
The Indus River flows through 3 countries ? | India, China, and Pakistan |
True or False- The Indus River brings water and silt that makes farming possible. | True |
True or False- Farmers began planting crops in the Indus Valley 1, 000 years before farming began in Egypt | True |
True or False- Wildlife helped crops in the Indus valley because they were able to germinate plants. | False |
True or False-Farmers built irrigation canals to bring water from the river to their crops. | True |