India Review

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India Review
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Indus River Civilization

• Name for land region like India that is
  isolated from the rest of Asia
• Subcontinent
• Seasonal winds that influence India and South
  east Asia
• Monsoons
• Mountains and seas that isolate India
• Arabian, Bay of Bengal, Himalaya, Hindu Kush
• Famous path through the Hindu Kush
• Khyber Pass
• Fortified fortress of the Indus Valley
  Civilization
• Citadel
• Reasons that suggest Indus R had a strong central
  government
• Sewers, laid out street, granaries, defensive
  walls

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The Invaders

• Type of writing of the undeciphered Indus R
• Pictograms on seals
• Term applied to the noble invaders from the NW
• Aryan
• Early form of religious teachings term for this
  invasion period
• Vedas (Vedic Age)
• Written language of the Vedic Age
• Sanskrit
• Term for the interpretations of the Vedas, essays
  epics
• Upanishads
• Famous epic that idealized men and womens roles
• Bhagavad Gita

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Hinduism

• Term for the four major classes of Hindu society
• Varna
• Term for the cycle of rebirths
• Reincarnation
• Term for living according to the moral code of
  the caste
• Dharma
• Term for the particular subcaste or occupation
• Jati
• Term for the luck or influencer of this life
• Karma
• Term for the universal soul of which all are
  apart
• Atman
• Term for belief in a universal soul of which all
  are apart
• monism

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Buddhism

• Blissful state of peace/harmony achieved through
  meditation and proper life
• Nirvana
• Guatamas birth class occupation
• Warrior administrator
• Term for the tribal leader or chief
• Raja
• Define the term Buddha
• Awakened one
• First Noble Truth
• Pain suffering despair misery in life
• Second Noble truth
• Desire craven own source of pain suffering
  despair
• Fourth noble truth
• Eight fold path middle way leads one to truth
  and good life

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Buddhism and the Empires

• Type of Buddhism believed in him as teacher
  individual salvation
• Theravada
• Type of Buddhism believed him as deity social
  salvation China, Korea Japan
• Mahayana
• Great leader who united northern India war
• Chandragupta Mauyra
• Individual who converted to Buddhism and had laws
  carved on large stone pillars
• Asoka
• Reasons why Hindu society considered patriarchal
• Decider, no property rights, no study Vedas,
  suttee