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1. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

2. What are the Four Noble Truths?
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 has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

3. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
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.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

4. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

5. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

6. What are the Four Noble Truths?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Inner soul
The duty that indians have in cast.
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.

7. When does the dry monsoon come?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
October.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

8. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
October.
The duty that indians have in cast.

9. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

10. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
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 duty that indians have in cast.

11. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
May.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

12. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Male domination.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

13. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

14. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
October.
May.
Male domination.

15. What is shakti?

16. What is the bohdi tree?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The duty that indians have in cast.

17. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The duty that indians have in cast.

18. What is significant about the Indus?

19. What is the Moksha?
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.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

20. What is sati?
He has a princely life.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

21. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

22. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

23. When does the dry monsoon come?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
October.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

24. What is significant about the Ganges?

25. What is significant about the Ganges?

26. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

27. What is Brahaman?
May.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He has a princely life.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

28. What is purdah?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

29. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
October.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

30. What is Dharma?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Inner soul
The duty that indians have in cast.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

31. What is Atman?
May.
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.
Inner soul

32. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
October.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.

33. What is Dharma?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

34. What is sati?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

35. What does patriarchal mean?
Male domination.
October.
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 empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

36. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

37. What is significant about the Indus?

38. What are subcontinents?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He runs the village
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He has a princely life.

39. What is karma?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

40. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Male domination.
October.

41. What is purdah?
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 belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

42. What is Brahaman?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

43. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Inner soul
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
May.

44. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He runs the village
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

45. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The duty that indians have in cast.

46. What are India's natural barriers?
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.
May.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
May.

47. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
May.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

48. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Inner soul
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Male domination.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

49. How many languages were in India?
Inner soul
October.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The duty that indians have in cast.

50. What does patriarchal mean?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Male domination.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He has a princely life.