Lets Roll

Question 1  What is the landform of India considered?

Answer  Subcontinent

Question 2  What do Hindus and Buddhist seeking?

Answer  Nirvana or Enlightment

Question 3  What is a piece of land on water 3 sides?

Answer  Peninsula

Question 4  What does the Four Nobles Truths explain and the Eight Fold Path explain what to end?

Answer  Suffering

Question 5  What are the names of the 2 mountains that cut India from the rest of Asia?

Answer  Hindu Kush and Himalayas

Question 6  What religion did Siddartha Gautama create?

Answer  Buddhism

Question 7  Buddhism believes in Reincarnation, Karma, Meditation, and what else? Which means to go without food.

Answer  Fasting

Question 8  Who was the most famous Mauryan Emperor?

Answer  Asoka

Question 9  What is reincarnation?

Answer  Is the rebirth of one’s soul?

Question 10  What was the name of the first civilization in India?

Answer  Harappan

Question 11  What river valley did the Harappan settle around?

Answer  Indus River Valley

Question 12  What is the result of your action in this life will lead to your status in your next life?

Answer  Karma

Question 13  What religion did Asoka turn to after he conquered almost all of India?

Answer  Buddhism

Question 14  What is the Hindu Caste system based on?

Answer  Occupation (Jobs)

Question 15  What are the names of the 2 major cities in the Indus River Valley and are 375 miles apart?

Answer  Harappa & Mohejo Daro

Question 16  What was so special about these 2 cities?

Answer  Planned Cities

Question 17  What does Mohenjo Daro mean?

Answer  “Mound of the Dead”

Question 18  What is the oldest religion in the world that was created by the Aryans?

Answer  Hinduism

Question 19  What is the name fortress in the middle of the Harappan Cities?

Answer  Citadel

Question 20  Mahatma Gandhi, what does Mahatma mean?

Answer  Great Soul

Question 21  Gandhi used non- violent protests, What did he do?

Answer  Marches  Boycotts  Sit ins  Hunger strikes

Question 22  What country occupied and took over India in 1608?

Answer  England

Question 23  We don’t know what to the Harappans, What is the problem with their language and writing?

Answer  We can not translate or decipher their symbols.

Question 24  What Indian Empire is referred to as the “Golden Age of India”?

Answer  Gupta Empire

Question 25  What is the name of the Aryan written Language?

Answer  Sanakrit

Question 26  What are the names of the 1 st Hindu texts that tell stories, poems, myths, and hymns?

Answer  Vedas

Question 27  Aryan villages were ruled by the most skilled warriors, what were their name?

Answer  Rajas

Question 28  What is the name of the Greek warrior who invaded India?

Answer  Alexander the Great

Question 29  What are War Elephants?

Answer  Elephants trained by humans for battle.

Question 30  Chandragupta Maurya was the 1 st emperor of the Mauryan Empire. He gave up his throne and turned to Jainism, what is Jainism?

Answer  Combo of Hinduism and Buddhism.

Question 31  What was the main religion of the Gupta Empire?

Answer  Hinduism

Question 32  What subject that is taught in school today was created during the Gupta Empire?

Answer  Mathematics

Question 33  What made the Gupta Empire wealthy?

Answer  Trading  Salt  Cloth  Iron

Question 34  Who attacked the Gupta Empire causing their demise?

Answer  Huns

Question 35  What is the name for the Buddhist temples that Asoka built for praying, meditating, studying Buddhism?

Answer  Stupas

Question 36  What did Asoka build?

Answer  Roads  Inns  Hospital  Wells

Question 37  What is the name of the 2 important River Valleys in India?

Answer  Indus and Ganges

Question 38  What was the 2 nd civilization that took over the Indus River Valley and then spread to the Ganges River Valley?

Answer  Aryans

Question 39  What is the name of the mountain range where invaders enter India through the Khyber Pass?

Answer  Hindu Kush

Question 40  During the “Golden Age of India”, what flourished in the Gupta Empire?

Answer  Art & Literature