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1. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

2. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

3. What was Sidhartha's life like?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Inner soul
He has a princely life.

4. What is Atman?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Inner soul
The duty that indians have in cast.

5. What is shakti?

6. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
He runs the village

7. What is the bohdi tree?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He runs the village
Inner soul

8. What is Brahaman?
He runs the village
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Pain and suffering are everywhere - the cause of suffering is desire - the way to end pain is to end desire - the way to end desire is to follow the Eightfold Path.

9. What are India's natural barriers?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

10. How many languages were in India?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

11. What is Dharma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

12. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He runs the village
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

13. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
He has a princely life.

14. What is Atman?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Inner soul
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

15. What is significant about Bangladesh?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

16. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

17. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
He has a princely life.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

18. What is significant about the Indus?

19. What is purdah?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

20. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Pain and suffering are everywhere - the cause of suffering is desire - the way to end pain is to end desire - the way to end desire is to follow the Eightfold Path.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
He has a princely life.

21. What does patriarchal mean?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
May.
Male domination.

22. What is Dharma?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The duty that indians have in cast.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

23. What is significant about Bangladesh?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

24. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

25. What does patriarchal mean?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Male domination.
The duty that indians have in cast.

26. What is purdah?
October.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

27. What is the Moksha?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Pain and suffering are everywhere - the cause of suffering is desire - the way to end pain is to end desire - the way to end desire is to follow the Eightfold Path.

28. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

29. What is karma?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
He has a princely life.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

30. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Inner soul
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
October.

31. What is sati?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

32. How many languages were in India?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

33. What is the bohdi tree?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

34. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Male domination.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

35. What is shakti?

36. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
October.
Inner soul
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

37. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

38. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

39. When does the dry monsoon come?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

40. What is significant about the Indus?

41. What are India's natural barriers?
He runs the village
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

42. What is sati?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

43. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

44. What is significant about the Ganges?

45. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

46. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

47. When does the wet monsoon come?
Pain and suffering are everywhere - the cause of suffering is desire - the way to end pain is to end desire - the way to end desire is to follow the Eightfold Path.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
May.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

48. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Pain and suffering are everywhere - the cause of suffering is desire - the way to end pain is to end desire - the way to end desire is to follow the Eightfold Path.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

49. What is significant about the Ganges?

50. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal