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| 7656973692 | Himalayan Mountains | region marking the northern border of the Indian subcontinent | 0 | |
| 7656973693 | Varnas | the categories organizing Indian society into a functional hierarchy | 1 | |
| 7656973694 | Untouchables | lowest caste in Indian society; performed tasks that were considered polluting (street sweeping, removal of human waste, tanning | 2 | |
| 7656973695 | Karma | the sum of merits accumulated by an individual; determined the caste one would be born into in the next life | 3 | |
| 7656973696 | Reincarnation | the successive rebirth of the soul according to merits earned in previous lives | 4 | |
| 7656973697 | Mahabharata, Ramayana | Indian epics, deeply imbued with Hindu teachings | 5 | |
| 7656973698 | Buddha | creator of a major Indian and Asian religion; born in the 6th century B.C.E.; taught that enlightenment could be achieved only by abandoning desires for earthly things | 6 | |
| 7656973699 | nirvana | the Buddhist state of enlightenment; a state of tranquility | 7 | |
| 7656973700 | Maurya dynasty | established in Indian subcontinent in 4th century B.C.E. following the invasion of Alexander the Great | 8 | |
| 7656973701 | Chandragupta Maurya | founder of the Mauryan dynasty, the first empire in the Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization | 9 | |
| 7656973702 | Kautilya | political advisor to Chandragupta Maurya; wrote political treatise "Arthashastra" | 10 | |
| 7656973703 | Ashoka | grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; extended conquests of the dynasty; converted to Buddhism and sponsored its spread throughout his empire | 11 | |
| 7656973704 | Stupas | stone shrines built to house relics of the Buddha; preserved Buddhist architectural forms | 12 | |
| 7656973705 | Upanishads | later books of the Vedas; combined sophisticated and sublime philosophical ideas | 13 | |
| 7656973706 | Shiva, Vishnu | the most important Hindu deities, Shiva destruction, Vishnu the preserver | 14 | |
| 7656973707 | Gupta Dynasty | built an empire in the 3rd century C.E. that included all but southern Indian regions; less centralized than Mauryan Empire | 15 | |
| 7656973708 | Sanskrit | the classical and sacred Indian language | 16 | |
| 7659984875 | Indra | Chief deity of the the Aryans; depicted as a colossal, hard-drinking warrior | 17 | |
| 7659991850 | Dharma | The caste position and career determined by one's birth; Hindu culture required that one accept one's social position and perform occupation to the best of one's ability in order to have a better situation in the next life | 18 |
