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Geography: Main topographical Regions
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Indus Valley, Plains, Mountains
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Geography: India as a subcontinent
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A large land mass smaller than a continent, India is sperated from Asia by the Himalaya mountains
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Geography: Main mountain ranges
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Western and Eastern Ghats, Himalayas, and Hindu Kush
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Geography: Best farmland
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Around the Indus Valley where the silt spreads to; farmers grew wheat, barley, beans, sesame, 1st rice, bananas, black pepper, cotton
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Geoghraphy: Main rivers
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Indus River, Ganges river, Ravi river, Narmada river
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Harappa nad Mohenjo-Daro: Examples of why the cities are considered well-planned
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used the same size bricks for everything so they could use bricks as their measuring unit, both were located and protected by mountains and rivers, they could have had laws, but nobody can read their writing
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Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro: Why little is known about either city
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one of the reasons nobody knows about either city is because the Ayrans invaded and brought their own things and destroyed any artifacts of importance. another reason why little is found is because acheologiests are still digging at the remains of the city today.
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Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro: What historians believe happened to the cities
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some historians think that and earthquake caused the indus river to change it's course, so the inhabitants had to follow their water.
2. earthquake caused massive flooding 3. new people came and invaded the Indus Valley (ayrans) |
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Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro: People who invaded the Indus Valley
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Ayrans
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Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro: What 3 things these invaders brought to India
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1. religion
2. sanscript (language) 3. hierarchy |
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Hindusim: sacred books
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Vedas, Mahabarta, Baghava-Gita, Ramayana
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Hinduism: information contained in the sacred books
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how to be a good hindu. this information is told in poems or stories
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Hinduism: description of the Caste system
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Brahmans: highest caste, religous leaders/teachers (mouth), Vaishyas: buisnessmen, merchants, farmers, (legs)
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Hinduism: Reincarnation
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if you are good, after you die, dharma and karma will make you re born into a higher caste.
1. birth 2. life 3. death 4. re-birth |
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Hinduism: Dharma
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leading a properl life and filled with moral duty
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Hinduism: Important gods/goddess
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Vishnu: preserves the universe, balaced good and evil, reborn 9 times
Brhama: sets universe in motion Shiva: creator/destroyer or world, god of death, lord of death |
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Buddhism: Siddartha Gautama
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A prince that lived inside the castle for all of his childhood life with everything he could ever need.
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Buddhism: Four vision seen by Siddartha saw and how they changed his life
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1. an old man
2. a sick man 3. a dead man 4. a wandering monk he finally realized that people suffer; and he wanted to go out into the world and find out why that was. |
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Buddism: What Siddartha was searching for
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he was searching for what caused suffering and how to solve it
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Buddhism: Importance of first sermon
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from then on, Siddartha became buddha, the enlightened one
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Buddhism: Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, The Middle Way
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1. life is filled with suffering
2. suffering is caused by prople's wants/desires 3. Suffering can stop, if people stop wanting things 4. in order to stop wanting things, you must follow the eightfold path The eightfold path 1. right understanding 2. right awarness 3. right speech 4. right action 5. right livelyhood 6. right effort 7. right thought 8. right concentration the middle way- not too good of a life, and not too bad, wheel of balanced life |
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Buddhism: Asoka- good and bad deeds
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conquers almost all of india, takes over by force, kills many people
he realizes what he has done wrong and tries to correct himself by 1. serves india and spreads buddhism |
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Buddhism: Buddhism vs Hinduism number of followers, difference today
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buddhism travels east to china and other parts of asia, but grows weaker in india. india eventually goes back to hinduism. india=83 percent hindu
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Sikh Culture: Examples of clothing
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salvar kameez- loose bottom and a shirt
chunee/dupatta-fabric wraped around head khurta/pajama- tight legged pants sari-6-8 yds or cloth Phag-turban langha-long skirt |
Chunee/dupatta, khurta/ pajama, phag, langha
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Sikh Culture: Bindhi
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symbol of marriage, both men and women can wear it, sybolizes the 3rd eye-concentration
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Arranged marriage
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when somebody arranges you to marry somebody else; the person who arranges it is usually your parents or another family member
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characteristics of a baptized sikh
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5 ks
1. kesh-uncut hair 2. khanga-wooden comb 3. kirpan-small sword 4.karra-the steel braclet 5. kaccha-under garmet, loose boxer shorts |
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four noble truths
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1. life is filled with suffering
2. suffering is cuased by people's wants/desires 3. to stop suffering you must stop wanting 4. to stop wanting, you must follow the eightfold path |
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eightfold path
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1. right understading
2. right awareness 3. right speech 4. right action 5. right livelyhood 6. right effort 7. right thought 8. right concenration |
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Karma
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if you do bad things, then bad things will happen to you.
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