India Review Sheet

Where did early civilization develop in India?

What do we know about the Indus River Valley settlements?

• The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

• Important innovations of this civilization include standardized weights and measures, seal carving, and metallurgy with copper, bronze, lead, and tin

• Organized government, indoor plumbing and sewage systems - cities were organized in a grid-like pattern

• All of the above

True or False: The key factors of Hinduism are:

1:a belief in many gods

2: a belief in the universal law of cause and effect (karma) and reincarnation

3: a belief in the possibility of liberation (being free) and release (moksha) by which the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (reincarnation) .

• True

• False

Hinduism is bound to the hierarchical structure of social classes called...

• Social Security

• Caste System

What is Dharma?

• your essential self

• one’s action

• religious duties of a person

What is reincarnation?

• your essential self

• rebirth of the soul into another bodily form

• religious duties of a person

What is Varna?

• social class

• rebirth of the soul into another bodily form

• religious duties of a person

What are the key facts regarding Buddhism?

• Buddhism, which began in India is a religion of about 300 million people.

• It has its origins about 2,500 years ago.

• The founder of Buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama

• All of the above

True or False: Buddha presented the Four Noble Truths as guiding principles:

1: there is suffering in life;

2: the cause of suffering is desire;

3: ending desire means ending suffering;

4: following a controlled and moderate lifestyle will end desire, and therefore end suffering.

• True

• False

True or False: The Noble Eightfold Path is the right belief, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right occupation, right effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi—or meditation.

• True

• False