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Chapter 19 Questions

Sec 1

Question: What is the Sanskrit?
Answer: The most important language of ancient India.

Question: What was Mohenjo Daro?
Answer: One of the two great settlements of the Harappa civilization.

Question: Where did the Harappa civilization develop?
Answer: Near the Indus River.

Question: Why did the Harappans make contact with people far from India?
Answer: To make trade with them and get raw materials.

Question: Who were the Aryans?
Answer: The new group that took over the Indus Valley after the Harappan civilization collapsed.

Sec 2

Question: What is the caste system?
Answer: The division of the Indian Society into groups based on a person's birth, wealth, or occupation.

Question: How is the process of rebirth called?
Answer: Reincarnation

Question: The avoidance on violent actions is called?
Answer: Nonviolence 

Question: What is the Sanskrit word for nonviolence called?
Answer: Ahimsa

Question: What are the four main Varnas?
Answer: Brahmins- or priest
Kshatriyas- rulers or warriors 
Vaisyas- farmers, caftspeople, and traders 
Sidras- non-Aryans


Sec 3

Question: What is fasting?
Answer: Going without food.

Question: The focusing of the mind on spiritual ideas is?
Answer: Meditation 

Question: What is nirvana?
Answer: A state of perfect peace.

Question: What are people who work to spread their religious beliefs called?
Answer: Missionaries 

Question: What are the eight rules of the Eightfold Path?
Answer: Right Thought
Right Intent
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood 
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness 
Right Concentration 


Sec 4

Question: Who are mercenaries?
Answer: Hired soldiers 

Question: What are edicts?
Answer: Buddhist laws

Question: Who created the Mauryan Empire?
Answer: Candragupta

Question: Who was the grandson of Candragupta and later king of the Mauryan Empire?
Answer: Asoka

Question: How were the Mauryan's well equipped for war?
Answer: They included more then 600,000 soldiers and many spies. They also had thousands of war elephants and thousands of chariots.

Sec 5

Question: What is metallurgy?
Answer: The science of working with metals

Question: How is the process of mixing metals called?
Answer: Alloys

Question: How is the study of stars and planets called?
Answer: Astronomy

Question: How are the numbers we use right now called?
Answer: Hindu-Arabic Numerals

Question: What is inoculation?
Answer: The practice of injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build a defense to a disease.