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How did India’s mountains and surrounding water influence its development?

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It limited contact between the subcontinent and the world.

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What did the people of India depend on the summer monsoon to do?

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Provide seasonal rain

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How did archaeologists know that Mohenjo-Daro was carefully planned?

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The streets separated regular blocks of homes and buildings

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When the Aryan and Indian cultures blended, what religion resulted?

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Hinduism

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According to the Hindu belief of reincarnation, faithful followers of Hinduism will what?

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Be born into a higher position

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What was the cure for human suffering that Buddha taught?

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To give up selfish desires

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Why is Asoka considered one of India’s greatest leaders?

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He was a kind ruler who thought of his people as children

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What two important rivers start in the Himalaya Mountains?

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  • Indus River

- Ganges River

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What is the biggest mountain range in the world?

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Himalaya Mountains

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What is India?

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A subcontinent

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What are the two types of monsoons?

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Summer and winter monsoons

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What is the Hindu Kush?

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A mountain range

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What are the two main things about the Indus River?

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  • Crosses Himalayas

- empties into the Arabian Sea

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What are the two main things about the Ganges River?

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  • cuts through the Himalayas

- empties into the Bay of Bengal

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What are the two powerful cities in India?

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  • Mohenjo-Daro

- Harappa

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What does nirvana mean?

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Everlasting peace

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What religion has priests?

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Buddhism

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What are monks?

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Men in monasteries

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Monks usually become what?

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Missionaries

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What do Hindus and Buddhists both believe in?

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  • wrong to harm living creatures
  • nonviolence
  • dharma
  • rebirth
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What are 4 things about Chandragupta?

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  • founder of Maurya Empire
  • his armies overflew many countries
  • Arthasatra - book of advice
  • had spies
  • 9,000 war elephants
  • economic success
  • farming
  • trade w/ Greece, China, Rome
  • afraid of being killed
  • gave throne to son
  • starved himself to death
  • his rule brought order and peace
  • Chandragupta’s son died
  • Asoka took control
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What are 4 things about Asoka?

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  • means without sorrow
  • built greatest empire ever seen
  • warlike
  • lead his army south to Kalinga
    • bloody battle
  • gave up war and violence
  • converted to Buddhism
    • gave up hunting
    • thought of his people as children
      • built hospitals
    • trees and wells everywhere
      • so that travelers & animals have water
    • writings of moral advice
    • laws were carved on stone
  • Asoka sent missionaries
  • at the time of Asoka’s death India was united
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What are four things about Mohenjo-Daro?

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  • city was built above ground level
  • like New Babylon
  • drainage system
  • brick streets
  • Indus River - canals next to river that directed the water
  • trade
  • unknown language
  • polytheistic
  • local people left
  • when MD was in ruins local people from other places named MD after a god - also Harappa
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What are three important things about Aryans?

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  • horse drawn chariots
  • Indus and Aryan combined culture
  • Aryan conquered Indus valley
  • spread to east
  • learned to make iron tools and weapons
  • knowledge came from Venus
  • shepards and warriors
  • nomads
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What is the Vedus?

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Books of Knowledge

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What does vedus mean?

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Knowledge

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What was the Indian social caste?

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  • Brahmans (priests)
  • warriors, nobles
  • artisans, merchants
  • farmers, laborers, servants
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What are the major things about Hinduism?

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  • people from India and Aryans combined culture = Hinduism
  • Brahman
  • different people = different ways of approaching gods
  • polytheistic
  • no certain person who invented Hinduism
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What are the three most important Hindu gods and goddesses?

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  • Brahma the Creator
  • Vishnu the Preserver
  • Shiva the Destroyer
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What was the Upanishads?

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Hindu religious text

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What is rebirth of the soul?

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Reincarnation

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Who founded Buddhism?

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Siddhartha Gautama

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What does Buddha mean?

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The awakened one

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What was Buddha’s Way?

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  • suffering exists
    • caused by selfish desires
    • to stop suffering stop selfish desires
    • do this by following the Middle Way
      • unselfish to other people

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