FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT INDIA

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FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT INDIA

VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Nirvana

Answer:

perfect spiritual peace

Question 2: Siddhartha Gautama

Answer:

founder of Buddhism, known as "Buddha" or "The Enlightened One"

Question 3: Monsoon

Answer:

winds that mark the seasons in India

Question 4: Chandra Gupta II

Answer:

ruled from 374-415 A.D., society prospered and progress was made in the arts during his reign

Question 5: Bhagavad Gita

Answer:

the last 18 chapters of the Mahabharata it stresses the idea of proper coduct in the varna

Question 6: Sanskrit

Answer:

the Indo-Aryan language

Question 7: Caste System

Answer:

complex form of social organization that began to take shape after the Indo-Aryan migration

Question 8: Suttee

Answer:

a practice of widows committing suicide by throwing themselves on top of their husband's flaming funeral pyres

Question 9: Indo-Aryans

Answer:

nomadic people that migrated from north of the Black and Caspian Seas

Question 10: Asoka

Answer:

Chandragupta's grandson who sent Buddhist missionaries throughout Asia

Question 11: Upanishads

Answer:

the written explanation of the Vedic religion

Question 12: Inoculation

Answer:

practice of infecting people with a mild form of a disease to protect them from serious illness

Question 13: Vedic Age

Answer:

the period of India's history from 1500 to 1000 B.C.

Question 14: maya

Answer:

Hinduism belief that the world we see is an illusion

Question 15: Chandragupta Maurya

Answer:

established the Mauryan empire

Question 16: Reincarnation

Answer:

the belief in the rebirth of the soul

Question 17: Raja

Answer:

a prince who ruled an Indo-Aryan state

Question 18: Aryabhata

Answer:

mathematician, one of the first people known to have used algebra and solved quadratic equations

Question 19: Vedas

Answer:

a great work of Indo-Aryan religious literature

Question 20: Monism

Answer:

belief in the unity of god and creation

Question 21: Brahmins

Answer:

special priest who were very important to the Indo-Aryan society

Question 22: Epics

Answer:

long poems

Question 23: Panchatantra

Answer:

fables from the Guupta period

Question 24: polygamy

Answer:

cutstom of men having more than one wife

Question 25: Varnas

Answer:

distinct social classes within the Indian Caste system

Question 26: Citadel

Answer:

a strong central fortress built on a brick platform

Question 27: Nalanda

Answer:

famous Buddhist university