Ch 9 Ancient India

the written language developed in Aryan villages

Who founded Buddhism during the 500s b.c.?

Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or burial mound

The Mauryan dynasty set up which type of government?

used trade routes to travel to holy sites

a force that decides the forms that people will be reborn into in their next lives

One of the oldest religions in the world and is the world’s third largest religion today?

What natural disasters possibly caused the people of the Indus Valley to abandon their cities?

the personal duty one must follow to be a better being in the next life

the Mauryan Empire reached its height under his rule

a social group that one is born into and cannot change

the prince or leader of an Aryan tribe

Five hundred years after Mauryan dynasty failed, which dynasty reunited much of northern India?

An epic poem about a ruler who rescues his captured wife and that grew to about 25,000 verses?

The two groups of Buddhists who spread the Buddha’s ideas to Southeast Asia were

an emotional or spiritual state of perfect peace and happiness

mountain range blocking Indian subcontinent from Asia

Which of the following is one of India’s three most important major rivers?

The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up

Which Indian invention affected the study of mathematics and science?

a section of an ancient religious, heroic poem

followers do not believe in a supreme being emphasize nonviolence to all living things

In Hinduism, the one universal spirit, or creator, is called

strong seasonal winds that influence India’s climate

The large cities of the Indus Valley civilization featured homes made mostly of

founded India’s first empire

In India’s varna system, the Kshatriyas class contained which people?

Which was a nomadic people that entered the Indus River valley around 1500 b.c.?

the rebirth of the soul

Who was a Mauryan ruler who built new roads and hospitals for people and animals?