7619461097 | What nations does the Indian subcontinent encompass | Pakistan, nepal, bhutan, bangkedesh, india, and sri lanka | 0 | |
7619461098 | Ecological zones of India | Mountainous northern zone, basins of Indus and Ganges rivers, southern peninsula, tropical coast | 1 | |
7619461099 | Crop in India and where specifically is it grown | Rice in moist, flat Ganges plateau | 2 | |
7619461100 | Has Indus Valley civilization writing been deciphered | No | 3 | |
7619461101 | True, false | Ocean was not a barrier to travel & time | 4 | |
7619461102 | What was Vedic age named after | Vedas, religious texts that are our main source of info during this period | 5 | |
7619461103 | After collapse of Indus Valley civilization, no central authority | Became home to kinship groups | 6 | |
7619461104 | New technologies made advance into Ganges plain possible | Iron tools, harder and sharper edge | 7 | |
7619461105 | Stories about the Vedic era were preserved | by memorization and oral recitation | 8 | |
7619461106 | Aryas | light skinned speakers of India eupopearan languages | 9 | |
7619461107 | Dasas | Dark skinned speakers of Dravidian language | 10 | |
7619461108 | Varna | Color classes were formed because skin color is concern of Indian society | 11 | |
7619461109 | Brahmin | Priests and scholars | 12 | |
7619461110 | Untouchables | people who lived outside the caste structure because of the impurity of their work | 13 | |
7619461111 | Kshatriya | Warriors and officals | 14 | |
7619461112 | Vaishya | Merchants, landowners | 15 | |
7619461113 | Shudra | Peasants and laborers, dasas | 16 | |
7619461114 | Brahmin priests taught that every living creature has immortal essence | The atman or breath | 17 | |
7619461115 | The atman is | reborn into another body that depended on karma, or deeds | 18 | |
7619461116 | Brahmanas | Descriptions of procedures for ritual and sacrifice | 19 | |
7619461117 | Brahmins had power because | Link between gods and humans | 20 | |
7619461118 | Woman experience in Vedic age | Might have studied sacred lore, hymns, rituals, married in late teens | 21 | |
7619461119 | Dominant deities were | Male | 22 | |
7619461120 | Moksha | Hindu concept of the spirits liberation from the endless cycles of rebirth | 23 | |
7619461121 | Upanishads | Collection of a hundred mystical dialogues between teachers and disciples | 24 | |
7619461122 | Threats to Vedic religion | Jainism and buddhism | 25 | |
7619461123 | Jainism | Emphasizing holiness of the life force animating all luving creatures, para three strict nonviolence. Didn't eat bugs, ascetism, starved themselves | 26 | |
7619461124 | Mahavira | Known to his followers as jina, established Jainism | 27 | |
7619461125 | Who developed buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama, known as buddha or enlightened one, prince to wandering acestic | 28 | |
7619461126 | Four noble truths | Life is suffering Suffering arises from desire Solution of suffering lies in curbing ones desire Desire can be curved if one follows the eightfold path | 29 | |
7619461127 | People who followed Buddhism took vows of | Celibacy, nonviolence, and poverty | 30 | |
7619461128 | Ultimate reward for Buddhism | Nirvana, snuffing out the flam | 31 | |
7619461129 | When Buddha died, he left no final instructions, | just to be their own lamp | 32 | |
7619461130 | Mahayana buddiphims | Embraced new principals and features | 33 | |
7619461131 | Theravada Buddhism | Followed original teachings if the founder | 34 | |
7619461132 | Vedic religion developed into | Hinduism | 35 | |
7619461133 | Hinduism emphasized devotion to diety | Vishnu, shiva, or devi | 36 | |
7619461134 | Puja | Service to the deity by clothing bathing feeding statue | 37 | |
7619461135 | Hindus consider what river to be sacred | Ganges river | 38 | |
7619461136 | There was a victory of Hinduism over Buddhism because | Hinduism responded to needs of people Buddhism demanded too much of people | 39 | |
7619461137 | Maurayan empire | India's first centralized empire | 40 | |
7619461138 | Maurayan empire was inspired by | Alexander the great | 41 | |
7619461139 | Theory of foreign policy in maurayan empire | My enemies enemy is my friend | 42 | |
7619461140 | Maurayan capital was | Pataliputra, where five tributaries join the Ganges | 43 | |
7619461141 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism because of brutality of his conquests Chandra Gupta grandson | 44 | |
7619461142 | Maurayan empire collapsed because | Dynastic disputes, expense of large army, administrative beurcracy, attacks from northwpeast | 45 | |
7619461143 | New foreign powers dominated in northwest Greco Bactrian kingdom - | troops left in afganastan by alspexander the great | 46 | |
7619461144 | New foreign powers dominated in northwest Large scale movement from | Pressure of han china on xiongu | 47 | |
7619461145 | New foreign powers dominated in northwest Shakas | Iranian people driven along pamir and Himalayas | 48 | |
7619461146 | Mahabharata | Tells stories of 2 cousins, pandavas and kaurayas whose quarrel over throne leads them to destructive battle . Winner - yudhishthira | 49 | |
7619461147 | Baghavadita Gita | Self contained episode set in midst of those events Krishna reveals true identity as time in climax Offers resolution to tension in Indian society about duty to society and duty to ones soul | 50 | |
7619461148 | What are the three Tamil kingdoms | Cholas, pandyas, cheras, | 51 | |
7619461149 | What did the three Tamil kingdoms do | Always in conflict with one another lasted for 2000 years Classical period with great literacy and artistic | 52 | |
7619461150 | Gupta empire | Powerful Indian state based | 53 | |
7619461151 | What was Gupta empires capital | Also Pataliputra | 54 | |
7619461152 | Chandra Gupta | Modeled himself as 1st maurayan king | 55 | |
7619461153 | Wpdesciebe gupta | Sitting astride trade routes No centralized authority like mauryans Theatre state | 56 | |
7619461154 | Achebievments of Gupta empire | Concept of zero Arabic numerals | 57 | |
7619461155 | While muaryans were Buddhist, Gupta monarchs were | Hindus | 58 | |
7619461156 | Gupta empire collapsed under | Pressure from huns | 59 | |
7619461157 | Funan | 1st major southeast Asian center Capital- modern day oc-ec | 60 | |
7619461158 | Srivijan kingdom capital | Palembang | 61 | |
7619461159 | Srivijan was a | Theater state | 62 | |
7619461160 | Borodour | Was Largest human instruction in Southern Hemisphere, temple | 63 |
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