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1. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He has a princely life.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.


2. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.


3. What is the Moksha?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal


4. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Male domination.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.


5. What does the headman do?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
He runs the village
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.


6. What is shakti?

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7. What is significant about the Ganges?

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8. What is sati?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.


9. When does the wet monsoon come?
He runs the village
The duty that indians have in cast.
May.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.


10. What is Brahaman?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.


11. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Male domination.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.


12. How many languages were in India?
May.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The sick - old - poor and dead.


13. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
May.
The sick - old - poor and dead.


14. 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.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
May.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.


15. What is the bohdi tree?
He runs the village
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
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.


16. What are subcontinents?
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.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
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.


17. What is Atman?
Inner soul
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.


18. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sick - old - poor and dead.


19. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Inner soul


20. What is sati?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
May.
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.


21. What is significant about the Ganges?

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22. What does the headman do?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He runs the village


23. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Male domination.
He runs the village
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.


24. What are subcontinents?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Male domination.
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.


25. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The duty that indians have in cast.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Inner soul


26. What are the Four Noble Truths?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
May.
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.


27. What is purdah?
Inner soul
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.


28. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
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.


29. What is Dharma?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The duty that indians have in cast.


30. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Union of atman and brahman - the goal


31. When does the wet monsoon come?
He has a princely life.
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.


32. What does patriarchal mean?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Male domination.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).


33. How many languages were in India?
October.
May.
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.


34. What is the bohdi tree?
May.
Inner soul
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.


35. What is karma?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.


36. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Inner soul
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.


37. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
May.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.


38. What are the Four Noble Truths?
May.
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.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.


39. What is Dharma?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
October.
The duty that indians have in cast.


40. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
October.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.


41. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.


42. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
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.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.


43. 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.
The duty that indians have in cast.
October.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.


44. What is significant about the Indus?

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45. 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.
He runs the village
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.


46. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
He runs the village
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.


47. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

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48. What is purdah?
May.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.


49. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Male domination.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Inner soul


50. What is karma?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.