World Cultures India

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1. How many languages were in India?
Male domination.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
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.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).


2. What is sati?
He runs the village
The duty that indians have in cast.
Inner soul
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.


3. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

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4. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

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5. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Male domination.


6. What is Dharma?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.


7. When does the wet monsoon come?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
May.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Inner soul


8. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
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.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).


9. What is significant about the Ganges?

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10. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Inner soul
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The duty that indians have in cast.


11. What are the ways through these 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.
Male domination.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.


12. What is karma?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
May.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.


13. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.


14. 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.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He runs the village


15. What is significant about the Indus?

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16. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
October.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The sick - old - poor and dead.


17. What is Brahaman?
Male domination.
He runs the village
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.


18. What is shakti?

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19. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Inner soul
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.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.


20. What is the bohdi tree?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He runs the village
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.


21. What is significant about the Ganges?

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22. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
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.
He runs the village


23. What is the Moksha?
October.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.


24. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The duty that indians have in cast.


25. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).


26. What are subcontinents?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.


27. When does the dry monsoon come?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Male domination.


28. What is the Moksha?
Male domination.
The duty that indians have in cast.
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.


29. What is purdah?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the 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.


30. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
He has a princely life.


31. What is purdah?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.


32. What are India's natural barriers?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.


33. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Inner soul


34. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Inner soul
Male domination.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.


35. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.


36. What does the headman do?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He runs the village
The duty that indians have in cast.


37. What is significant about the Indus?

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38. What does patriarchal mean?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Male domination.


39. When does the dry monsoon come?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.


40. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
He runs the village
Union of atman and brahman - the goal


41. What is karma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.


42. What are India's natural barriers?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
October.


43. What is Dharma?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The duty that indians have in cast.


44. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal


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


46. What is the bohdi tree?
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.
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


47. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.


48. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
He has a princely life.
Inner soul
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.


49. How many languages were in India?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He has a princely life.


50. What is Atman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Inner soul
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.