1. Lets Roll

2. Question 1  What is the landform of India considered?

3. Answer  Subcontinent

4. Question 2  What do Hindus and Buddhist seeking?

5. Answer  Nirvana or Enlightment

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

7. Answer  Peninsula

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

9. Answer  Suffering

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

11. Answer  Hindu Kush and Himalayas

12. Question 6  What religion did Siddartha Gautama create?

13. Answer  Buddhism

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

15. Answer  Fasting

16. Question 8  Who was the most famous Mauryan Emperor?

17. Answer  Asoka

18. Question 9  What is reincarnation?

19. Answer  Is the rebirth of one’s soul?

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

21. Answer  Harappan

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

23. Answer  Indus River Valley

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

25. Answer  Karma

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

27. Answer  Buddhism

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

29. Answer  Occupation (Jobs)

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

31. Answer  Harappa & Mohejo Daro

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

33. Answer  Planned Cities

34. Question 17  What does Mohenjo Daro mean?

35. Answer  “Mound of the Dead”

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

37. Answer  Hinduism

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

39. Answer  Citadel

40. Question 20  Mahatma Gandhi, what does Mahatma mean?

41. Answer  Great Soul

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

43. Answer  Marches  Boycotts  Sit ins  Hunger strikes

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

45. Answer  England

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

47. Answer  We can not translate or decipher their symbols.

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

49. Answer  Gupta Empire

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

51. Answer  Sanakrit

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

53. Answer  Vedas

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

55. Answer  Rajas

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

57. Answer  Alexander the Great

58. Question 29  What are War Elephants?

59. Answer  Elephants trained by humans for battle.

60. 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?

61. Answer  Combo of Hinduism and Buddhism.

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

63. Answer  Hinduism

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

65. Answer  Mathematics

66. Question 33  What made the Gupta Empire wealthy?

67. Answer  Trading  Salt  Cloth  Iron

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

69. Answer  Huns

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

71. Answer  Stupas

72. Question 36  What did Asoka build?

73. Answer  Roads  Inns  Hospital  Wells

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

75. Answer  Indus and Ganges

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

77. Answer  Aryans

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

79. Answer  Hindu Kush

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

81. Answer  Art & Literature