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Ancient India - 6

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