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1. What is purdah?
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

2. When does the dry monsoon come?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
October.

3. What are India's natural barriers?
The duty that indians have in cast.
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.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

4. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current 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.
Inner soul
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

5. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
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.

6. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

7. What is the bohdi tree?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

8. What is Dharma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Inner soul
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
May.

9. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

10. When does the wet monsoon come?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
May.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

11. What is Atman?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Inner soul
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.

12. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

13. What does the headman do?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He runs the village
Male domination.
The duty that indians have in cast.

14. What was Sidhartha's life like?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He has a princely life.
He runs the village

15. What are the Four Noble Truths?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Landmasses divided from the continent by 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.

16. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.

17. What are India's natural barriers?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He has a princely life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

18. What is significant about the Ganges?

19. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

20. 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 belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
He runs the village
He has a princely life.

21. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
He has a princely life.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

22. What is significant about the Indus?

23. What is shakti?

24. What does the headman do?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He runs the village
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

25. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
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.
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 in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

26. When does the wet monsoon come?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
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.
May.

27. What is significant about the Ganges?

28. What is the Moksha?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
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

29. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

30. What does patriarchal mean?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Male domination.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

31. What is the Moksha?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

32. What is significant about the Indus?

33. What is Brahaman?
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 in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

34. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
He has a princely life.
The duty that indians have in cast.

35. What are subcontinents?
October.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

36. What is Brahaman?
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.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

37. What is Atman?
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.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

38. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

39. How many languages were in India?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Inner soul
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

40. What is sati?
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.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
October.

41. What is karma?
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.
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.

42. What is sati?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
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 runs the village

43. What is purdah?
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.
He has a princely life.
He runs the village

44. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

45. When does the dry monsoon come?
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.
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

46. What is karma?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
October.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

47. 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.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

48. How many languages were in India?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

49. What is the bohdi tree?
He runs the village
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

50. What are subcontinents?
He runs the village
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.