India Vocabulary

Question 1

What is Dharma?

Accepted Answer

Personal duty, depending on one’s place in society.

Question 2

The number of people living in a specific measurable area. For example-100 people per square mile.=Population Density

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What is Shudra?

Accepted Answer

The fourth and lowest class. Made of laborers and servants.

Question 4

Karma=The idea of achieving enlightenment, through the teachings of Buddha.

Accepted Answer

No

Question 5

What is Varnas?

Accepted Answer

The four classes of the caste system.

Question 6

Location of the first civilizations in the area. Located along the Indus River it was home to the early sites.

Accepted Answer

Indus river valley

Question 7

What is Brahmins?

Accepted Answer

Priests, from the highest social class in the caste system.

Question 8

Four Noble Truths=The path to Enlightenment. Including that the way to stop suffering is to stop wanting.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What is Aryan

Accepted Answer

None of the above

Question 10

What is Population Density?

Accepted Answer

None of the above

Question 11

What is Theravada Buddhism?

Accepted Answer

People believed that Buddha was a great teacher but not a god.

Question 12

Mahayana Buddhism=The path to Enlightenment. Including that the way to stop suffering is to stop wanting.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

A person who travels to holy sites

Accepted Answer

Pilgrim

Question 14

What is Caste System?

Accepted Answer

The social hierarchy of India created by the Aryans.

Question 15

Untouchabes=Below the caste system. Did the work no one else would.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The practice of nonviolence against all living things.=Ahimsa

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Sanskrit=The first written language of Ancient India Allowed them to keep records.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What is Vaishya

Accepted Answer

The third class of people made up of farmers and merchants.

Question 19

Religion that does not believe in a supreme being.

Accepted Answer

Jainism

Question 20

What is Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

The dominant religion of India. Polytheistic.

Question 21

Buddhism=The idea of achieving enlightenment, through the teachings of Buddha.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What is Harappa?

Accepted Answer

Indus river civilization around 2000 BC.advanced with complex cities.

Question 23

What is Reincarnation?

Accepted Answer

The rebirth of a soul in a new body.

Question 24

Indo-European=A type of language family, or group of similar languages.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

What is monsoon?

Accepted Answer

A seasonal wind that causes wet and dry seasons., Effects which crops they can grow and when they can grow them.

Question 26

Vedas=Ancient collection of sacred early Hindu writings.

Accepted Answer

Yes

India Vocabulary

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India Vocabulary

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