Ancient India Review

_______ means going without food.

How is Aryan society different from Harappan society?

Hindus believed in many gods that were part of a single spirit called the Brahman.

Brahmins, India's priests performed rituals for the gods.

Geography played a key role in the development of Harappan civilization. What brought life to Ancient India.

What is NOT an example of one of the Eightfold Path beliefs?

Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are examples of people who believed in a VIOLENT method for social change.

India is an island, so small it’s called a continent.

Why was the Indus River well suited for people to settle?

How did Siddhartha free his mind and clarify his thinking as he searched for wisdom?

Ancient India took interest in __________, the study of stars and planets.

In Ancient India, Hinduism and Buddhism are the same religion that believe in the same Noble Truths.

The teaching of Buddhism spread throughout India and Asia by ______, people who work to spread their religious beliefs.

Where did Buddhism spread?

Which religious group believed in the process of rebirth called reincarnation where souls are born and reborn again.

Buddhists believed in animal sacrifice and caste systems.

The type of form one returns depends on their _______, the effects of good or bad actions have on a person’s soul.

Ancient Indian astronomers knew of seven planets, that the sun was a star, and planet earth was a sphere that rotated.

Which religion group believed in animal sacrifice?

Some people did not believe in all the teachings of Hinduism and created new religious groups, known as _____.

What did Hindu temples look like?

Ancient Indians were the first people to create the _______ in modern math systems today.

What was the most important language ofAncient India that started out to be only spoken, but eventually written down.

What mountains are the highest in the world located in Northern India that separate India from the rest of Asia.

Buddhist teachings believed in nonviolence.

Why did Hindu and Buddhist temples contain great works of art?

In Ancient India, some Buddhists carved entire temples out of mountainsides.

Ancient India is located in Southern Asia, present day Pakistan, as we know it today.

What forms of religious art did Indians create during Mauryan and Gupta periods?

Buddhists believe that following the Eightfold Path one will achieve _______, state of perfect peace?

Ancient India created a ______ that divided society into groups based on wealth, birth and occupation.

Ancient India made medicines from plants/animals, performed surgeries, and developed ways to protect people from viruses

_______ is focusing of the mind on spiritual ideas.

Who was Siddhartha?

Buddha believed that people cause their own misery because they want things they cannot have.

Harappan civilization was very advanced by having indoor bathrooms, and developing the system of weights and measures.

Which is an example of nonviolence?

Ancient India made important advances in _______, math and sciences.