GUPTA MATHEMATICIAN AND ASTRONOMER; HE ARGUED THAT THE EARTH REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN AND CORRECTLY EXPLAINED THE CAUSES OF ECLIPSES

NOMADS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA WHO MIGRATED TO INDIA AND FINALLY SETTLED

A RULER OF THE MAURYAN EMPIRE WHO CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM

A BODY OF WATER THAT LIES BETWEEN ARABIA AND INDIA, THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE INDIAN OCEAN

A SINGLE SPIRITUAL POWER THAT HINDUS BELIEVE LIVES IN EVERYTHING

RIVER THAT BEGINS IN TIBET' FLOWS THROUGH NORTHEAST INDIA AND BANGLADESH' JOINING WITH THE GANGES TO EMPTY INTO THE BAY OF BENGAL

MAURYAN EMPIRE'S GOLDEN AGE BEGINS

ARYANS CONTROL NORTHERN INDIA

ARYANS BEGIN MIGRATIONS TO INDIA

HARAPPA FLOURISHES

MOHENJO- DARO FLOURISHES

BUDDHISM SPREADS FROM INDIA TO CHINA

SAMUDRA GUPTA EXPANDS GUPTA EMPIRE

A COUNTRY BORDERING SOUTH VIETNAM TO THE WEST, AND A STRONGHOLD FOR VIET CONG TROOPS TO BUILD UP AND THEN PENETRATE S. VIETNAM BORDERS WITH EASE

RULER OF THE MAURYA EMPIRE. A SECRET POLICE WAS AT THE CENTER OF HIS HARSH BUT EFFECTIVE RULE

FIRST GUPTA EMPIRE RULER WHO UNIFIED INDIA AFTER 500 PEARS OF WARRING KINGDOMS

ORIGINALLY, A TITLE MEANING 'UNIVERSAL PRIEST' THAT THE MONGOL KHANS INVENTED AND BESTOWED ON A TIBETAN LAMA(PRIEST) IN THE LATE 1500S TO LEGITIMATE THEIR POWER IN TIBET

A HIGH AREA OF LAND AT THE CENTER OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT

LOCATED IN INDIA, THIS RIVER IS CONSIDERED SACRED TO HINDUS AND IS USED FOR SPIRITUAL CLEANSING

SITE OF ONE OF THE GREAT CITIES OF THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C.E. IT WAS LOCATED ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER OF THE ZONE OF CULTIVATION, AND MAY HAVE BEEN A CENTER FOR THE ACQUISITION OF RAW MATERIAL

THESE MOUNTAINS SEPARATE INDIA FROM CHINA AND ARE THE TALLEST IN THE WORLD

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA

MANY PEOPLE AND LANGUAGES OF EUROPE, IRAN, AND NORTHERN INDIA SHARE A COMMON LINGUISTIC TRAITS DUE TO BEING PART OF THIS ANCIENT GROUP

A RIVER IN SOUTH ASIA THAT FLOWS FROM THE HIMALAYAS TO THE ARABIAN SEA

A COUNTRY BORDERING VIETNAM; PART OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL THROUGH THIS COUNTRY

THE LONGEST SINGLE POEM IN THE WORLD, ABOUT A WAR FOUGHT BETWEEN TWO BRANCHES AT THE SAME FAMILY. ONE OF INDIA'S GREATEST EPICS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1000 AND 700 B.C.

FOUNDER OF JAINISM

A PHILOSOPHER FROM INDIA, THIS MAN WAS A SPIRITUAL AND MORAL LEADER FAVORING INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN. HE PRACTICED PASSIVE RESISTANCE,CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND BOYCOTTS TO GENERATE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE

LARGEST CITY OF THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

HIGHEST PEAK IN THE WORLD,LOCATED IN THE HIMALAYAS

COUNTRY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA WAS ONCE KNOWN AS BURMA

THE COUNTRY THAT LIES BETWEEN INDIA AND TIBET, WHICH WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BUDDHA

A COUNTRY THAT WAS CREATED AFTER THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA THAT WAS COMPOSED OF ALL THE COUNTRY'S MUSLIMS

A HINDU EPIC POEM WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT THAT DESCRIBES THE ADVENTURES OF THE KING RAMA AND HIS QUEEN

AN INDO-EUROPEAN, INDIC LANGUAGE IN USE SINCE C.1200 B.C. AS THE RELIGIOUS AND CLASSICAL LITERARY LANGUAGE OF INDIA

INDIAN DOCTOR WHO CARRIED OUT AN EARLY TYPE OF PLASTIC SURGERY

FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM

AN ISLAND NATION SOUTH OF INDIA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

A COUNTRY OF SOUTHEASTERN ASIA THAT EXTENDS SOUTHWARD ALONG THE ISTHMUS OF KRA TO THE MALAY PENINSULA