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Ancient India (California Standard 6.5): where Hinduism and Buddhism began and what their followers have historically taught.
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In which part of the world did both Hinduism and Buddhism first develop?
How do historians describe the origins of Hinduism?
What are the Vedas?
In which ancient language were the Vedas composed and passed down?
Buddhist tradition dates its founder to roughly the 500s BCE. In which part of the subcontinent do Buddhist accounts place his teaching?
Hindu and Buddhist teachings both use the word karma. What does karma refer to?
Hindu teachings describe a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. What name do Hindu texts give to release from that cycle?
Buddhist teachings describe a state in which craving has ended and rebirth ceases. What do Buddhists call that state?
Buddhist tradition sets out central statements about suffering, its cause, its ending and the way to end it. What are these statements called?
Buddhist teachings describe a guide to living that includes right speech, right action and right effort. What is this guide called?
A hymn in the Rig Veda pictures the four varnas as coming from different parts of one cosmic being. What did that hymn supply for the varna order?
In the varna system as it developed in ancient India, how did a person normally come to belong to a particular varna?
Ancient Indian texts described society as four varnas. Which varna did those texts place in the role of priests and keepers of sacred learning?
Many Hindu texts describe the many deities as expressions of one universal spirit behind everything. What name do those texts give that universal spirit?
Buddhist communities built dome-shaped mounds that held relics and were places for people to walk around in devotion. What are these structures called?
Ashoka, a Maurya emperor of the 200s BCE, had messages carved on rocks and pillars across his lands. What did those messages encourage?
In the centuries after Ashoka's reign, Buddhism spread from the subcontinent into Central Asia and China. What carried it along that path?
Which river do Hindu traditions treat as sacred, drawing pilgrims to bathe in its waters?
Hinduism and Buddhism are both living religions with large numbers of followers around the world.
Historians describe Aryan groups migrating into the Indian subcontinent in the centuries before 1000 BCE. From which direction did they enter?
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