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Chapter 19: Ancient India
Early Indian Civilizations
Question: What was the first civilization ever called?
Answer: The Harappan Civilizaton
Question: Where was the first civilization located?
Answer: Along the Indus River
Question: What were Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
Answer: Two Harappan cities
Question: Who came after the first civilization crumbled?
Answer: The Aryans
Question: Describe Harappa and Mohenjo Daro.
Answer: Two cities built with defense in mind.
Origins of Hinduism
Question: What was the caste system?
Answer: It was a system that divided Indian society into groups based on a person's birth, occupation, and wealth
Question: Why were some people called "untouchables"?
Answer: People weren't supposed to make contact with them.
Question: Define "reincarnation".
Answer: The process of rebirth
Question: List 2 rules that caste systems had to keep each other distinct.
Answer: No marriage in between, no eating together, no mixing with other group members, etc.
Question: List 2 of the 4 main varnas.
Answer: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (rulers and warriors), Vasiyas (farmers and merchants), Sudras (laborers, non- Aryans)
Origins of Buddhism
Question: Define "fasting".
Answer: No food
Question: Who was Siddharta Gautama?
Answer: A prince who began to ask questions about life and went out on a search for answers. Later on became the Buddha.
Question: Why did lower classes support Buddha?
Answer: No limit, everyone could reach nirvana
Question: What does "Buddha" mean?
Answer: Enlightened one
Question: List 2 of the 8 steps in the Eightfold path.
Answer: right thought, right intent, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration
Indian Empires
Question: Define "mercenaries".
Answer: Hired soldiers
Question: Who was Asoka?
Answer: Candragupta's grandson, one of the most powerful Mauryan kings
Question: How did Candragupta Maurya rile the Mauryan Empire?
Answer: With a complex government
Question: Why did Gupta kings bring back the caste system?
Answer: Thought to strengthen their rule.
Question: How did Asoka improve his people's lives?
Answer: Dug wells, built roads throughout the empire, built rest houses for travelers, raised stone pillars carved with Buddhist edicts
Indian Achievements
Question: What are alloys?
Answer: Mixtures of two or more metals
Question: When did temples become more complex?
Answer: During the Gupta period
Question: What are our numbers called?
Answer: The Hindu-Arabian numbers
Question: What are the Mahabharata and Ramayana?
Answer: Religious epics
Question: What was the Ramayana about?
Answer: A prince called Rama who was the god Vishnu in human form who had to rescue his wife princess Sita