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1. What is Dharma?
Male domination.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Inner soul
October.

2. What does the headman do?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He runs the village
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

3. What is purdah?
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

4. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
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

5. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The duty that indians have in cast.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

6. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

7. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
Inner soul
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

8. How many languages were in India?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Male domination.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

9. What is shakti?

10. What is significant about the Indus?

11. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

12. What is karma?
October.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

13. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

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

15. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The duty that indians have in cast.

16. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He has a princely 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.
May.

17. What is Atman?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
May.
Inner soul
The duty that indians have in cast.

18. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

19. What does patriarchal mean?
Inner soul
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Male domination.

20. What is karma?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
May.
Inner soul
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

21. What are India's natural barriers?
Inner soul
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

22. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

23. 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.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

24. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

25. What does patriarchal mean?
Male domination.
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

26. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
He runs the village

27. How many languages were in India?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
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.
He has a princely life.

28. What is Brahaman?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
He runs the village
Male domination.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

29. What is significant about the Indus?

30. What are the Four Noble Truths?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
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.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

31. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
May.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Male domination.
October.

32. What is sati?
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

33. What is shakti?

34. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

35. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
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.
He has a princely life.

36. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
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.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
He runs the village

37. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

38. What are India's natural barriers?
He runs the village
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Male domination.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.

39. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The duty that indians have in cast.
October.
He has a princely life.

40. What is significant about the Ganges?

41. What is Atman?
October.
Inner soul
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

42. What was Sidhartha's life like?
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.
He has a princely life.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

43. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

44. What is the bohdi tree?
October.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Male domination.

45. What is sati?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
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.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

46. What is significant about the Ganges?

47. What is Dharma?
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 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.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

48. What is Brahaman?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Inner soul

49. When does the wet monsoon come?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
He has a princely life.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
May.

50. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
October.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.