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5. This Mountain Range makes a barrier between India and China.

6. What is the Himalaya Range?

7. This most holy river flows eastward and ends in Bangladesh.

8. What is the “Ganges River”?

9. This body of water lies west of the Indian peninsula.

10. What is the “Arabian Sea”?

11. This river valley was home to an advanced civilization and is the source of the name “India.”

12. What is the “Indus River Valley”?

13. Along with the Himalayas, this mountain range was also a natural barrier.

14. What is the Hindu Kush Range?

15. The streets of Mohenjo Daro and other cities were constructed in this pattern.

16. What is a “grid pattern”?

17. The Indus River Valley cities built these to store surplus food.

18. What are “granaries”?

19. This one,built in Lothal, was over 700 feet long and could have served 20 ships at a time.

20. What is a “wharf”?

21. Instead of looking outward, the windows of homes usually faced toward this.

22. What is an inner courtyard?

23. Surprisingly, ancient homes in Mohenjo Daro all seemed to have this modern sanitary convenience.

24. What is a toilet?

25. The name for this civilization comes from the nearby modern city of Harappa.

26. What is the Harappan Civilization?

27. Before farming, this was the occupation of the Indo-Aryans.

28. What is “nomadic herder”?

29. Archaeologists once believed Indo-Aryans to be related to people on which continent?

30. What is “Europe”?

31. This is one of the greatest mysteries about the Indus Valley civilization.

32. Why the Indus Valley civilization declined and the people left their cities.

33. Although they must have had them, evidence for these classes of people in the Indus River Valley is missing.

34. What are “rulers” and “priests”?

35. This civilization of people brought with them the idea of the caste system.

36. Who are the “Aryans” or the “Indo-Aryans”?

37. This event would determine your caste for life.

38. What is “birth”?

39. This caste, consisting of priests, was the highest level.

40. What is the “Brahmin caste”?

41. Besides being fun to say, this was the caste for warriors and priests.

42. What is the “Kshatriya caste”?

43. This caste was the lowest and had to do the most dirty jobs.

44. What was the “untouchable caste”?

45. Much of South Asia gets most of its rain during which of the four seasons?

46. What is “summer”?

47. This was the spoken and written language of the Aryans.

48. What is “Sanskrit”?

49. This reversal of wind regulates the rainfall of South Asia.

50. What is the “monsoon”?

51. This is the name of the historic, religious verses of the Aryan people.

52. What are the “Vedas”?

53. The modern term for the untouchable caste, which means “the crushed ones.”

54. What are “Dalits”?

55. Make your wager

56. The answer to this mystery could include: invasion, disease, flooding, drought, war, or famine.

57. Why did the people of the Indus River Valley abandon their cities?