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Which country shares a land border with India?
Which country shares a land border with India?
- Sri Lanka
- Iran
- Myanmar (correct)
- Afghanistan
What is the approximate age of settled life on the Indian subcontinent?
What is the approximate age of settled life on the Indian subcontinent?
- 5,000 years ago
- 15,000 years ago
- 12,000 years ago
- 9,000 years ago (correct)
Which country shares a land border with India?
Which country shares a land border with India?
- Japan
- Afghanistan (correct)
- Sri Lanka
- Philippines
Which civilization emerged in the western margins of the Indus river basin?
Which civilization emerged in the western margins of the Indus river basin?
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Which major religions emerged in India?
Which major religions emerged in India?
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Which civilizations emerged in India during the third millennium BCE?
Which civilizations emerged in India during the third millennium BCE?
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Which bodies of water border India?
Which bodies of water border India?
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Which religions emerged as major religions in India?
Which religions emerged as major religions in India?
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Which major religions emerged in India?
Which major religions emerged in India?
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Study Notes
- India is located in South Asia and is the seventh-largest country by area and second-most populous country.
- It shares land borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
- Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa at least 55,000 years ago.
- Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE.
- Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism emerged as major religions in India.
- Early political consolidations gave rise to the Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin.
- The era of these empires was marked by creativity but also by the declining status of women and the incorporation of untouchability into an organized system of belief.
- South India exported Dravidian-languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia.
- India is bounded by the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.
- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
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