1.) How are Hindu and Buddhist beliefs similar?
a.) Nirvana is a Buddhist belief in freeing the soul from the cycle of reincarnation, which is a Hindu belief.
b.) Nirvana was taught by Siddhartha Gautama, a Hindu teacher who converted to Buddhism.
c.) Belief in nirvana was spread by both Hindu merchants and Buddhist traders.
d.) The idea of nirvana is what made former believers in both Hinduism and Buddhism become Jains.



2.) The Himalayas seperate what?
a.) Pakistan and India
b.) the Indian subcnonitnet from the rest of Asia
c.) Afghanstan from the rest of South Asia
d.) northern and southern India



3.) Because of its rich soil, people have migrated to South Asia's?
a.) Himalayas
b.) mountain gorges
c.) flood plains
d.) plateau regions



4.) Farmers in the northern Indo-Gangetic Plain of South Asia rely more heavely on what?
a.) water carried by rivers that drian from the Himalayas
b.) cool air that brings drenching rain
c.) monsoons that bring needed moisture
d.) desert wind that balances the cold, moist air from the Himalayas