Indus River Valley

Question 1

What is the name of the large village in the province of Punjab in Pakistan?

Answer 1

Harappa

Question 2

What is set in 2016 BC at the height of Indus Valley civilization?

Answer 2

Mohenjo Daro

Question 3

What is one of the oldest written languages?

Answer 3

Sanskrit

Question 4

What is regarded as the ancient language in Hinduism?

Answer 4

Sanskrit

Question 5

What is an ancient Indian culture?

Answer 5

Veda

Question 6

what is the name of an ancient yoga?

Answer 6

Rig Veda

Question 7

What is the ancient Indian epic that the main story revolves around two branches of a family?

Answer 7

Mahabharata

Question 8

What is n epic in south and southeast Asia about a king who has to save his kidnapped wife?

Answer 8

Ramayana

Question 9

What is a fundamental concept in Hind Philosophy?

Answer 9

Maya

Question 10

What comes from the Hindu-Buddhist philosophy of soul transmigration?

Answer 10

Reincarnation

Question 11

What is a collection of Indian animal fables

Answer 11

Panchatantra

Question 12

What ancient university and Buddhist monastic center?

Answer 12

Nalanda

Question 13

What is the force generated by a persons actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the persons next existence?

Answer 13

Karma

Question 14

What is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development?

Answer 14

Buddhism

Question 15

What is a prophesy that was given at Siddharthas birth that he would become either a powerful king or great spiritual leaders?

Answer 15

Siddhartha Guatama

Question 16

What is the first noble truth?

Answer 16

The truth of suffering

Question 17

What is the second noble truth?

Answer 17

The truth of the origin of suffering

Question 18

What is the third noble truth?

Answer 18

The truth of the cessation of suffering

Question 19

What is the fourth noble truth?

Answer 19

The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering.

Question 20

What became the official religion in Sri Lanka?

Answer 20

The earliest Stupa after Theravada Buddhism

Question 21

What is the lofty Tibetan Plateau on the Himalayas?

Answer 21

Tibetan

Question 22

What are some of the other religions?

Answer 22

Sikh, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam.

Question 23

What are ruling Empires

Answer 23

Maurya, Chandragupta Maurya and Chandra Gupta ll

Question 24

What is a collection of Indian animal fables, which has had extensive circulation both in the country of its origin and throughout the world?

Answer 24

Panchatantra

Question 25

What was one of the first Indian Mathematicians and astronomers Belonging to the classical age?

Answer 25

Aryabhata