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1. What is significant about the Ganges?

2. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Male domination.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Male domination.

3. What are India's natural barriers?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
May.

4. How many languages were in India?
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.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

5. What is the Moksha?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
October.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He has a princely life.

6. What is shakti?

7. What are the Four Noble Truths?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the 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.

8. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The duty that indians have in cast.

9. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
October.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

10. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
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.

11. When does the wet monsoon come?
Inner soul
Inner soul
He has a princely life.
May.

12. What is Dharma?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The duty that indians have in cast.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

13. What is Atman?
Inner soul
October.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

14. What does the headman do?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
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.
He runs the village

15. When does the wet monsoon come?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Male domination.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
May.

16. What is karma?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

17. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
Male domination.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
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.

18. 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.
Male domination.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The duty that indians have in cast.

19. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

20. What is purdah?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

21. What is purdah?
He runs the village
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
He has a princely life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

22. What is Dharma?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
October.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

23. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

24. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
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.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

25. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

26. What does patriarchal mean?
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).
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.

27. What is Brahaman?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

28. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

29. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The sick - old - poor and dead.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

30. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

31. What is significant about the Ganges?

32. What are India's natural barriers?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

33. When does the dry monsoon come?
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.
He has a princely life.
October.

34. What does patriarchal mean?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Male domination.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

35. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
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).

36. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
May.
The duty that indians have in cast.

37. What is Brahaman?
The duty that indians have in cast.
Male domination.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

38. What are subcontinents?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

39. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

40. What are the Four Noble Truths?
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 empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

41. What is sati?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Inner soul
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

42. What is significant about Bangladesh?
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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

43. What is karma?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He runs the village
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

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

45. What is significant about the Indus?

46. What is significant about the Indus?

47. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
October.
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.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

48. What is the Moksha?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

49. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

50. What is sati?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
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.
The sick - old - poor and dead.