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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 priestKshatriyas- 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 ThoughtRight 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.