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1. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
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.
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.

2. When does the dry monsoon come?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
October.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

3. What are subcontinents?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

4. When does the wet monsoon come?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
May.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

5. What is Atman?
Inner soul
He has a princely life.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

6. What is sati?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
May.

7. What was Sidhartha's life like?
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.
He has a princely life.

8. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
He has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

9. What is purdah?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

10. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

11. What is Dharma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

12. What is the bohdi tree?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

13. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

14. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
May.
He has a princely life.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

15. What is significant about the Indus?

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

17. When does the dry monsoon come?
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.
October.
The duty that indians have in cast.
May.

18. What is significant about Bangladesh?
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 sick - old - poor and dead.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

19. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

20. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
May.
He has a princely life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

21. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.

22. What is karma?
He runs the village
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Inner soul
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

23. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

24. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Inner soul
He has a princely life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

25. When does the wet monsoon come?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
May.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
October.

26. What are subcontinents?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
May.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

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

28. What is shakti?

29. What does patriarchal mean?
October.
Male domination.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The duty that indians have in cast.

30. What is significant about the Ganges?

31. What is significant about the Indus?

32. What is the Moksha?
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Inner soul

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

34. What are the Four Noble Truths?
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.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

35. What is significant about the Ganges?

36. What was Sidhartha's life like?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
He has a princely life.
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.

37. What is Dharma?
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

38. How many languages were in India?
Male domination.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

39. What is Atman?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Inner soul
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
He runs the village

40. What is the Moksha?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Male domination.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

41. What is karma?
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.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

42. What is significant about Bangladesh?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
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.
He has a princely life.

43. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
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.

44. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

45. What does the headman do?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
He runs the village
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

46. How many languages were in India?
Inner soul
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He runs the village

47. What is shakti?

48. What is sati?
Inner soul
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

49. 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
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
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.

50. What is Brahaman?
He runs the village
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 very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.