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1. What is Dharma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
May.

2. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

3. What is significant about the Indus?

4. What does patriarchal mean?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Male domination.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Inner soul

5. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
May.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

6. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
May.

7. What does patriarchal mean?
May.
Male domination.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

8. What is purdah?
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.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

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

10. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

11. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

12. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

13. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
May.

14. What is significant about the Ganges?

15. When does the wet monsoon come?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
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.
May.

16. What is shakti?

17. What are the Four Noble Truths?
Male domination.
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.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

18. What are subcontinents?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
October.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

19. What is sati?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Inner soul
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

20. What is purdah?
October.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The duty that indians have in cast.

21. What is karma?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

22. 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.
He runs the village
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

23. What is Brahaman?
October.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

24. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

25. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
He has a princely life.
He has a princely life.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

26. What is significant about the Indus?

27. What is karma?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

28. What is Dharma?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

29. What are India's natural barriers?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He has a princely life.

30. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
He runs the village
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Male domination.
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.

31. What is the Moksha?
Male domination.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

32. How many languages were in India?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Inner soul
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.

33. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
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.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

34. When does the dry monsoon come?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
October.
He runs the village
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

35. What is Atman?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Inner soul
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

36. What is shakti?

37. How many languages were in India?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He has a princely life.

38. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
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.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

39. What is the bohdi tree?
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.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
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.

40. What is Atman?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Inner soul
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

41. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
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.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The duty that indians have in cast.

42. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Inner soul
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

43. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
October.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

44. When does the wet monsoon come?
He has a princely life.
May.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

45. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He has a princely life.

46. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
He runs the village

47. What are subcontinents?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

48. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

49. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Male domination.
He has a princely life.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

50. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?