Transcript India Review Game

Lets Roll
Question 1
What
is the landform
of India considered?
Answer
Subcontinent
Question 2
What
do Hindus and
Buddhist seeking?
Answer
Nirvana
or
Enlightment
Question 3
What
is a piece of
land on water 3 sides?
Answer
Peninsula
Question 4
What
does the Four
Nobles Truths explain
and the Eight Fold
Path explain what to
end?
Answer
Suffering
Question 5
What
are the names
of the 2 mountains
that cut India from the
rest of Asia?
Answer
Hindu
Kush
and
Himalayas
Question 6
What
religion did
Siddartha Gautama
create?
Answer
Buddhism
Question 7
Buddhism
believes in
Reincarnation, Karma,
Meditation, and what
else? Which means to
go without food.
Answer
Fasting
Question 8
Who
was the most
famous Mauryan
Emperor?
Answer
Asoka
Question 9
What
is reincarnation?
Answer
 Is the rebirth of one’s soul?
Question 10
What
was the
name of the first
civilization in India?
Answer
Harappan
Question 11
What
river valley did
the Harappan settle
around?
Answer
Indus
River Valley
Question 12
What
is the result of
your action in this life
will lead to your status
in your next life?
Answer
Karma
Question 13
What
religion did
Asoka turn to after he
conquered almost all
of India?
Answer
Buddhism
Question 14
What
is the Hindu
Caste system based
on?
Answer
Occupation
(Jobs)
Question 15
What
are the names
of the 2 major cities in
the Indus River Valley
and are 375 miles
apart?
Answer
Harappa
& Mohejo Daro
Question 16
What
was so special
about these 2 cities?
Answer
Planned
Cities
Question 17
What
does Mohenjo
Daro mean?
Answer
“Mound
of the Dead”
Question 18
What
is the oldest
religion in the world
that was created by
the Aryans?
Answer
Hinduism
Question 19
What
is the name
fortress in the middle
of the Harappan
Cities?
Answer
Citadel
Question 20
Mahatma
Gandhi,
what does Mahatma
mean?
Answer
Great
Soul
Question 21
Gandhi
used nonviolent protests,
What did he do?
Answer
Marches
Boycotts
Sit
ins
Hunger strikes
Question 22
What
country
occupied and took
over India in 1608?
Answer
England
Question 23
We
don’t know what
to the Harappans,
What is the problem
with their language
and writing?
Answer
We
can not translate or
decipher their symbols.
Question 24
What
Indian Empire is
referred to as the
“Golden Age of India”?
Answer
Gupta
Empire
Question 25
What
is the name of
the Aryan written
Language?
Answer
Sanakrit
Question 26
What
are the names
st
of the 1 Hindu texts
that tell stories,
poems, myths, and
hymns?
Answer
Vedas
Question 27
Aryan
villages were
ruled by the most
skilled warriors,
what were their
name?
Answer
Rajas
Question 28
What
is the name of
the Greek warrior
who invaded India?
Answer
Alexander
the Great
Question 29
What
are War
Elephants?
Answer
Elephants
trained by
humans for battle.
Question 30
Chandragupta
Maurya
st
was the 1 emperor of
the Mauryan Empire. He
gave up his throne and
turned to Jainism, what
is Jainism?
Answer
Combo
of
Hinduism
and
Buddhism.
Question 31
What
was the main
religion of the Gupta
Empire?
Answer
Hinduism
Question 32
What
subject that is
taught in school
today was created
during the Gupta
Empire?
Answer
Mathematics
Question 33
What
made the Gupta
Empire wealthy?
Answer
Trading
Salt
Cloth
Iron
Question 34
Who
attacked the
Gupta Empire causing
their demise?
Answer
Huns
Question 35
What
is the name for
the Buddhist temples
that Asoka built for
praying, meditating,
studying Buddhism?
Answer
Stupas
Question 36
What
did Asoka build?
Answer
Roads
Inns
Hospital
Wells
Question 37
What
is the name
of the 2 important
River Valleys in
India?
Answer
Indus
and
Ganges
Question 38
What
nd
2
was the
civilization that took
over the Indus River
Valley and then
spread to the Ganges
River Valley?
Answer
Aryans
Question 39
What
is the name of
the mountain range
where invaders enter
India through the
Khyber Pass?
Answer
Hindu
Kush
Question 40
During
the “Golden
Age of India”, what
flourished in the
Gupta Empire?
Answer
Art
& Literature