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Chapter 4-Ancient India
Class Notes (Powerpoint)
Instructions:
Read the American Nation textbook, pages 104-131. Answer
these questions using the textbook and your class notes.
1. Where is India located on a map?
(Slide 4)
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2. What is a subcontinent?
(Slide 6)
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3. What is a monsoon?
(Slide 2)
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4. What were the Harappan’s achievements? (Slide 10)
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5. Who developed India’s first writing system?
(Slide 11)
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6. What were the Vedas?
(Slide 13)
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7. What was a raja?
(Slide 15)
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8. What is Sanskrit?
(Slide 16)
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9. What were the four main social divisions of the Varnas?
(Slide 19)
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10. Who were the Brahmins?
(Slide 19)
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11. What is a caste system?
(Slide 21)
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12. What does a caste system determine for people?
(Slide 22)
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13. What is Brahmanism?
(Slide 24)
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14. What is Hinduism?
(Slide 26)
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15. What did Hindus believe?
(Slide 27)
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16. What is reincarnation? (Slide 28)
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17. What is karma?
(Slide 29)
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18. What is dharma?
(Slide 30)
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19. What is ahimsa?
(Slide 30)
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20. What Jainism? (Slide 31)
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21. Who founded Sikhism?
(Slide 32)
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22. What is yoga?
(Slide 33)
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23. How did Siddhartha dedicate his time?
(Slide 37)
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24. What did Siddhartha change his name to? (Slide 38)
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25. What is Buddhism?
(Slide 39)
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26. What is nirvana?
(Slide 40)
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27. How did Buddhism make people feel?
(Slide 42)
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28. What were missionaries?
(Slide 44)
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29. What was the Silk Road?
(Slide 45)
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30. Who founded the Maurya Empire?
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31. What guided Chandragupta?
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32. Who built the greatest empire India had ever seen since 273
B.C.?
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33. What was the Gupta Empire famous for?
(Slide 50)
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34. What was Sanskrit literature? (Slide 55)
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35. What is metallurgy? (Slide 56)
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36. What is an alloy? (Slide 56)
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37. What are Hindu-Arabic numerals?
(Slide 57)
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38. What is an Inoculation?
(Slide 58)
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39. What is astronomy? (Slide 59)
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