Miss Rice’s Cheat Sheet

On India

Why are monsoons both good and bad for famers?

• Good – They help water the crops and bring prosperity

• Bad – If the monsoons come late they will not bring rain and the crops will die of draught. If they bring too much rain they will drown out the crops.

What animal was and still is sacred to the people of India? It is the same animal that was used to show the amount of wealth a person had?

What does Buddha mean?

• The Enlightened One

What was the major improvement the Aryans made

to farming?• Iron Plow

What are some modern inventions that the Harappa and Mahenjo-Daro

had in their houses?

• Individual wells, garbage chutes, toilets (kind of like a port-a-potty).

It may be horrifying but what were upper class women expected to do

when their husbands died? If not what happened?

• Suttee - she was forced to jump into the fire or be shamed and avoided by everyone

forever

I was a great king who first took over India by force and then realized that the blood of war made me sick, so I

decided to became a peaceful king and follow the ways of Buddha

AsokaAsoka

I am the civilization that came from Central Asia with my sacred cow. My civilization had

great warriors and chariots.

• Aryans

Harappan

• I am the civilization that first settled in the Indus Valley. We created huge cities and were very peaceful people who did not have many weapons

Siddhartha Guatama

• I am the prince that created Buddhism after seeing how much suffering there was outside of my palace. I later became known as the Buddha.

Chandragupta Maurya

I was the first man to unite the villages of Northern India.

/ Sudras

/ Pariahs

The longest poem in the world was made by the Ancient

Indians was: • Mahabharata

The Ancient Indians gave us many contributions some were?

• The # 0• The symbols for 1-9 – replaced Roman numerals in CE

1200• The symbol for infinity and the meaning• Algorithms –used in math and science• Earth is round• Earth revolves around the sun• Understood gravity• The ideas of atoms• Set broken bones• Invented medical tools• Plastic surgery• Herbs to heal

Hindu Buddhist• Polytheistic Monotheistic• Brahman Karma Nirvana• Upanishads Reincarnation Dalai Lama• Oldest religion The Soul 8 fold path• Dharma Started in India Theocracy• Caste System Tibet Everyone is equal• Many in modern Many in modern day

day India China few in India