Ancient India

What is a caste?

• A systems of connected pipes whose purpose is to remove waste water.

• Priests and scholars in the Indian caste system

• River Valleys

• A life-long social group into which a Hindu is born

What are the Himalayas?

• Dharma, karma, and reincarnation

• highest mountain range in the world

• Person's religious and moral duties.

• A time of great peace and prosperity

Who were the Aryans?

• Priests and scholars in the Indian caste system

• Siddhartha Gautama

• A systems of connected pipes whose purpose is to remove waste water.

• Nomads who migrated to India from the north, probably through the Hindu Kush Mountains

Who were Brahmins?

• Priests and scholars in the Indian caste system

• A systems of connected pipes whose purpose is to remove waste water.

• Nomads who migrated to India from the north, probably through the Hindu Kush Mountains

• People who were considered the lowest in society in Hindu India

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are located in what modern day country?

• Pakistan

• believed in many gods and goddesses

• The Four Noble Truths

• The Indus River

How are Buddhism and Hinduism similar? (GLE 6.2.6)

• Developed from Hinduism, and they both existed together in India for over a thousand years.

• Nomads who migrated to India from the north, probably through the Hindu Kush Mountains

• People who were considered the lowest in society in Hindu India

• A systems of connected pipes whose purpose is to remove waste water.

What is reincarnation?

• The Hindu idea that sums up a person's deeds during their lifetime

• The brahmins (priests & scholars); warriors & nobles; artisans & merchants; and on the lowest level, farm workers, laborers,

  servants

• The remains of things that were made, not the remains of living things

• The belief that the individual soul of a person is reborn in a different form after death, based on their karma, or their deeds in

  their prior life or lives

The Golden Age of India occurred during which dynasty?

• the Gupta Empire

• The Indus River

• A fort or fortress inside a city

• The Four Noble Truths

How is Buddhism different from Hinduism?

• The Hindu idea that sums up a person's deeds during their lifetime

• No gods. If an offering is made to a statue, it is a sign of respect, not worship

• The Vedas and other sacred texts

• Traders and missionaries spread Buddhist ideas throughout Asia.

Who is the Buddha?

• Priests and scholars in the Indian caste system

• People who were considered the lowest in society in Hindu India

• Siddhartha Gautama

• A systems of connected pipes whose purpose is to remove waste water.