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1. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

2. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He has a princely life.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

3. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.

4. What is Dharma?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The duty that indians have in cast.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

5. What is karma?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
He runs the village
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

6. What are India's 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.
Inner soul
He has a princely life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

7. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

8. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

9. What is shakti?

10. When does the dry monsoon come?
October.
May.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

11. What are subcontinents?
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The duty that indians have in cast.

12. What are subcontinents?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
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.
The duty that indians have in cast.

13. What is significant about the Ganges?

14. What is sati?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.

15. What is Atman?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
October.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Inner soul

16. What is significant about Bangladesh?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

17. What is the Moksha?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The sick - old - poor and dead.
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 runs the village

18. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
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.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

19. What is sati?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

20. What is purdah?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
October.
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.

21. When does the dry monsoon come?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
October.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

22. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
May.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Male domination.

23. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Inner soul
He runs the village
He has a princely life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

24. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Male domination.

25. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
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.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

26. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
May.

27. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
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.

28. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
He has a princely life.
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.
Inner soul

29. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
Inner soul
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.

30. What does the headman do?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
May.
He runs the village
October.

31. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
Inner soul
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

32. How many languages were in India?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
May.

33. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Male domination.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

34. What are the Four Noble Truths?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
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.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

35. What is the Moksha?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal

36. What is Dharma?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The duty that indians have in cast.
Inner soul
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

37. What are the Four Noble Truths?
He runs the village
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.
May.

38. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

39. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.

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

41. How many languages were in India?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
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.

42. What is significant about the Indus?

43. What does the headman do?
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
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.
He runs the village

44. What does patriarchal mean?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
May.
Male domination.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

45. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Inner soul
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.
Male domination.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

46. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
He has a princely life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
October.

47. What is the bohdi tree?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
October.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

48. What is purdah?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

49. What is significant about the Indus?

50. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
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.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.