Ancient India

Question 1

What is a Subcontinent?

Answer 1

An area that makes up a lot of the continent

Question 2

What is a Monsoon?

Answer 2

Strong seasonal winds that bring dry seasons in the winter and lots of rain in the summer.

Question 3

Petroglyphs

Answer 3

Rock carvings/paintings

Question 4

Zebu Cow

Answer 4

Humped and horned cattle

Question 5

What is the Caste system?

Answer 5

There were three sections high, medium and low people in the high were known as Kshatriyas which are rulers and warriors and Brahmans which included priests and scholars. Middle class are Vaishyas which include farmers, traders and merchants. Finally the low caste which had Sudras which were peasants bound to the land and outcastes which were also known as the untouchables

Question 6

Who is Brahman?

Answer 6

A universal spirit that is all the gods combined and he is the creator.

Question 7

Kshatriyas

Answer 7

Ruler and warriors

Question 8

Vaisyas

Answer 8

Merchants, traders and farmers in the middle class

Question 9

Sudras

Answer 9

Peasants bound to the land.

Question 10

Outcastes

Answer 10

Very poor and are known as the untouchables.

Question 11

Aryans

Answer 11

Some believe they were crossed over the Hindu Kush and other believe they were descendants.

Question 12

Sanskrit

Answer 12

It is complicated rituals done by Aryan priests or Brahmans.

Question 13

Vedas

Answer 13

Sacred text used to record hymns.

Question 14

Hinduism Dharma

Answer 14

It is the path a person should follow in their lifetime.

Question 15

Karma

Answer 15

When a person does something, it creates an equal reaction. What u put into the world will come back at you. Karma also works in another life.

Question 16

Samsara

Answer 16

Reincarnation

Question 17

Moksha

Answer 17

Freedom you are released from the circle of reincarnation

Question 18

Diwali

Answer 18

The celebration of light

Question 19

Saratha Gautama

Answer 19

He was a prince and founder of Buddhism because he saw some old people dying and was like what’s the point of life if u die. Buddha means “enlightened one.”

Question 20

Nirvana

Answer 20

A state if bliss end of suffering caused be the cycle of rebirth

Question 21

Chandragupta Maurya

Answer 21

Ruler that gave up being violent and the throne to become a monk.

Question 22

Asko

Answer 22

Very violent ruler but nobody liked him, so he began go to Buddhism and built hospitals inspired nonviolence plus he built these tall pillars in a lot of places that had all the rules and stuff on them and ran his empire in a nonviolent way.

Question 23

Wheel of law

Answer 23

Single most important symbol of Buddhism it means forward motion and peaceful change guided by peace and virtue.

Question 24

Chandra Gupta l

Answer 24

Leader of Magadha and began gaining power and established the Gupta empire.

Question 25

Kalidasa

Answer 25

The greatest poet in Chandra Gupta II court and one of India’s greatest writers.

Question 26

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 26

leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India with nonviolent protests.

Question 27

Mahatma

Answer 27

A title that they gave to Mohandas Gandhi it means “Great Soul.”

Question 28

Satyagraha

Answer 28

Nonviolent resistance

Question 29

Colonialism

Answer 29

When one country takes full control of another country’s government and all of their supplies.

Question 30

Buddhism Dharma

Answer 30

The totality of Buddhas teachings also known as the divine law.

Question 31

salt act

Answer 31

When India was under British rule the British didn’t let the have salt, they had to buy it from the British wich sold it for high prices.

Question 32

salt march

Answer 32

When lots of people in India walked 270 miles to Gandhi 12miles per day.