Baird SS INDIA EMPIRE

Question 1

What is an tribute?

Answer 1

Taxes

Question 2

The art and science of designing buildings

Answer 2

Architecture

Question 3

He was an emperor of India who converted to Buddist religion

Answer 3

Asoka

Question 4

Asoka spread the religion of Buddist religion through India. He was also the ruler of the ____________ _______________

Answer 4

Maurya Empire.

Question 5

Asoka was the grandson of __________

Answer 5

Chandragupta

Question 6

Who began the Maurya Empire and how long did it last?

Answer 6

Chandragupta Maurya 140 years

Question 7

Stupas are__________

Answer 7

shrines

Question 8

Tell about Chandragupta

Answer 8

he founded the Gupta Empire. It became the Golden Age of India. Peace and Prosperity reigned. He fostered arts and learning throughout the empire. The Gupta Empire reached its height during his reign.

Question 9

Name two achievements during the Gupta Empire

Answer 9

architecture and mathmatics

Question 10

Kalidasa was_______________

Answer 10

poet and playwright

Question 11

It is a large landmass that is geographically separated from the rest of the continent.

Answer 11

Subcontinent

Question 12

Give an example of a subcontinent

Answer 12

the Himalayan Mountains seperate from the rest of Asia

Question 13

Name the bodies of water that surround India:

Answer 13

Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean

Question 14

What mountains seperate India from the rest of the continent of Asia?

Answer 14

Himalaya

Question 15

What is a problem for agriculture?

Answer 15

wild animals eating their crops and floods

Question 16

The economy of early India was based on __________

Answer 16

agriculture

Question 17

Tell about their agriculture

Answer 17

They had two growing seasons. They grew wheat, barley, beans and sasame. They also grew mustard, bananas, rice and black pepper and cotton

Question 18

A ______________is seperated from Asia

Answer 18

subcontinent

Question 19

Why is it called a subcontinent?

Answer 19

Because it is seperated from Asia

Question 20

How did the Indus river help farmers?

Answer 20

The farmers were able to irrigate the crops

Question 21

A set of intersecting lines

Answer 21

grid

Question 22

lines that run east to west and measure distance north and south

Answer 22

latitude

Question 23

Lines of longitude are known as

Answer 23

meridians

Question 24

How are lines of latitude and longitude measured?

Answer 24

degrees

Question 25

lines of latitude are known as

Answer 25

parallels

Question 26

Parallel are the _______________distance apart and never meet

Answer 26

same

Question 27

lines of latitude and longitude cross to form a

Answer 27

grid

Question 28

The prime meridian goes through____________

Answer 28

Greenwich England

Question 29

A walled fortress that protects a city

Answer 29

citadel

Question 30

Moheno-Dara means

Answer 30

mound of the dead

Question 31

what ancient language does "mound of the dead" mean Moheno-Daro?

Answer 31

sanskrit

Question 32

Aryan means

Answer 32

nobel one

Question 33

Is one of he worlds oldest religions that began with the Aryan invasion of India.

Answer 33

Hinduism

Question 34

How did hinduism begin?

Answer 34

with the invasion of Aryan

Question 35

Today what two countries are the larges of Hindiusm?

Answer 35

Nepal and India

Question 36

What contains the basic beliefs of Hinduism?

Answer 36

vedas

Question 37

Vedas are also known as the

Answer 37

books of knowledge

Question 38

This organizes all of Indias Hindus into hundreds of groups

Answer 38

Caste System

Question 39

Who is at the top of the Hindu caste system?

Answer 39

Priests

Question 40

Who is at the bottom of the Hindu Caste System?

Answer 40

Servants

Question 41

What is the group who lived outside the caste system?

Answer 41

outcasts or untouchables

Question 42

Agril

Answer 42

God of fire

Question 43

It is the continuing circle of birth, death and rebirth.

Answer 43

reincarnation

Question 44

Reincarnation is a ___________or_____________________of a life lived before

Answer 44

reward or punishment

Question 45

When did India make the caste system illegal?

Answer 45

1950

Question 46

What consists of hundreds of rules that tell Hindus each caste how to live?

Answer 46

dharma

Question 47

Brahma

Answer 47

supreme godhead

Question 48

name two aspects of Brahma

Answer 48

vishnu and shiva

Question 49

Vishnu means

Answer 49

preserver and the protector

Question 50

Shiva means

Answer 50

destroyer of the world

Question 51

A man who gives up all he owns and gives his life to his religion

Answer 51

monk

Question 52

A force caused by a persons good and bad acts

Answer 52

karma

Question 53

In buddhism, the principles that rule life and promise an end to suffering

Answer 53

Four nobel truths

Question 54

A set of instructions of on the proper way to live

Answer 54

Eightfold Path

Question 55

In buddhism a way of life, neither too strict nor too easy that results from the following eightfold path

Answer 55

Middle Way

Question 56

Who introduced the world to Buddhism?

Answer 56

Traveling Monks