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The world's tallest mountains are the

• Alps

• Hindu Kush

• Rockies

• Himalayas

The two great cities of ancient India were

• Indus and Ganges

• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

• Himalaya and Hindu Kush

The greatest leader of the Maurya Empire was

• Chandragupta

• Bindusara

• Asoka

• Alexander

Indian scholars invented

• math

• zero

• subtraction

• the numbers we use today

What did the Indus River provide for the Indus River Valley Civilizations?

• Water

• Government

• Transportation

• Forms of Writing

Who were the Aryans?

• Priests and scholars in the Indian caste system

• an important Hindu deity who in the trinity of gods was the Destroyer

• an Indo-European people who, about 1500 B.C., began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent

• a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher

What was the Caste System?

• also called pariahs, lowest level of the Indian society; not considered a part of the caste system; did degrading jobs

• a lifelong social group/class into which a Hindu is born

• one of the most sacred animals for the Hindus

• Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village

What was Harappa?

• one of the most sacred animals for the Hindus

• a state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truths about the universe

• A strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer

• the capital city, one of the core regions of the Indus Valley Civilization, and modern day Pakistan

What is Mohenjo-Daro?

• caste that made up most of the Indian population; most were peasants and manual laborers; they had limited rights in society

• Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system.

• The Buddhist belief of the extinction of desire and individual consciousness, also spiritual enlightenment

• an important Hindu deity who in the trinity of gods was the Destroyer

What is Sanskrit?

• a lifelong social group/class into which a Hindu is born

• Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village

• the moral law combined with spiritual discipline that guides one's life; the order of the universe

• The sacred language of ancient India; came originally from the Aryans.