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1. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Inner soul
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

2. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
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.

3. What is purdah?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.

4. What is purdah?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
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.
He has a princely life.

5. What is Brahaman?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The duty that indians have in cast.
May.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

6. What does the headman do?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He runs the village

7. What is shakti?

8. What are the Four Noble Truths?
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.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

9. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

10. What are India's natural barriers?
May.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

11. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

12. What is Dharma?
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

13. What is significant about the Ganges?

14. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
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.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

15. How many languages were in India?
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.
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.

16. What is significant about the Ganges?

17. What is Atman?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Inner soul
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

18. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He has a princely life.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

19. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He has a princely life.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Inner soul

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

21. What is the Moksha?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

22. What is Brahaman?
He has a princely life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
May.

23. What is significant about the Indus?

24. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

25. What is sati?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
May.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

26. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

27. What is Dharma?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Male domination.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

28. What is the bohdi tree?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He runs the village
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

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

30. When does the dry monsoon come?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

31. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
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 has a princely life.

32. What is significant about the Indus?

33. What are India's natural barriers?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He has a princely life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

34. What is Atman?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Inner soul
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.

35. What is karma?
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

36. What does patriarchal mean?
October.
Male domination.
October.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

37. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
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
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
May.

38. What is the bohdi tree?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

39. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

40. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
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.

41. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Inner soul
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.

42. What is significant about Bangladesh?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

43. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Male domination.
Inner soul

44. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He has a princely life.

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

46. What are the Four Noble Truths?
The sins or good deed you take to the next 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.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

47. What does patriarchal mean?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
May.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Male domination.

48. 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.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

49. When does the wet monsoon come?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Male domination.
October.
May.

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