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1. What is purdah?
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
Male domination.
He runs the village
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

2. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
He has a princely life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

3. What is Brahaman?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
He has a princely life.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

4. What is significant about the Ganges?

5. What is significant about Bangladesh?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
He runs the village
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.

6. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
October.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

7. What does patriarchal mean?
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Male domination.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.

8. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The duty that indians have in cast.

9. What is significant about the Ganges?

10. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

11. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
He has a princely life.

12. What is Brahaman?
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
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.
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.

13. What is Atman?
May.
Inner soul
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

14. What are subcontinents?
The duty that indians have in cast.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He runs the village

15. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
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.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

16. What are the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
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.
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

17. What is sati?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Male domination.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

18. What is Atman?
Inner soul
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.

19. What is purdah?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).

20. What is the bohdi tree?
A sacred tree to the Buddhists.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
October.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.

21. How many languages were in India?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.
Male domination.

22. What is karma?
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.
May.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.

23. What is shakti?

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

25. What is the Moksha?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
October.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

26. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism?
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.
Vedas (eternal truths) - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Upinshads (support the truths).
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

27. When does the wet monsoon come?
May.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
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.

28. What is the Moksha?
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
October.

29. What are the Four Noble 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.
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very densely populated - and has many floods and cyclones. It is a delta.

30. What are the ways through these natural barriers?
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.

31. What does the headman do?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
He has a princely life.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
He runs the village

32. What is significant about the Indus?

33. What were the three things Sidhartha saw that made him leave his current life?
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
May.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.

34. What was Sidhartha's life like?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He has a princely life.

35. When does the wet monsoon come?
The sick - old - poor and dead.
May.
The universal spirit that surrounds us.
October.

36. What are India's natural barriers?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
October.

37. When does the dry monsoon come?
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
October.

38. What is Dharma?
The duty that indians have in cast.
It is a holy river - Hindu's bathe in it.
The belief that a woman's creative energy is bad and cannot be controlled by anyone other than a man.
The sick - old - poor and dead.

39. What is Dharma?
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
He has a princely life.
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
The duty that indians have in cast.

40. What was Sidhartha's life like?
He has a princely life.
The sick - old - poor and dead.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

41. How many languages were in India?
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.
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.
Over 700 - English was used as a unifying language.

42. Who is Sidhartha Guatama?
May.
Union of atman and brahman - the goal
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
He was the founder of Buddism. He became the budda.

43. What are subcontinents?
The belief that a married woman cannot be seen by any males other than close realtives.
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
Kyber Pass and Kashmir Valley.
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

44. What is significant about the Brahmaputra?

45. What does the headman do?
He runs the village
It empties into the sea in Bangladesh - and meets with the Ganges. It's banks are densely populated.
Male domination.
The ritual of a women throwing herself into a fire because her husband died.

46. What is shakti?

47. What is karma?
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.
The sins or good deed you take to the next life.
October.

48. What are India's natural barriers?
Inner soul
He has a princely life.
Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
Brahaman - Atman - Moksha - Reincarnation - Karma - and Dharma.

49. What is significant about the Indo Gangetic Plain?
Landmasses divided from the continent by natural barriers.
It is in Pakistan - where civilization began - and many Pakistanis live on it's bank.
He runs the village
It is very fertile - it is towards the north of India.

50. What is significant about the Indus?