7340404879 | Library of Ashurbanipal | held official documents as well as literary and scientific texts | 0 | |
7340418431 | House of Knowledge | an academy that attracted learned men to the imperial center | 1 | |
7366759898 | Israel | the land that the Israelites occupied in the past | 2 | |
7366783782 | Hebrew Bible (old testament) | a collection of many materials that originated with different groups and supported particular interpretations of past events | 3 | |
7366880165 | Covenant | pact with their god | 4 | |
7366882078 | First Temple | A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. (built by king Solomon) | 5 | |
7366934839 | The Western Wall in Jerusalem | The sole remaining remnants of King Herod's magnificent Second Temple; it replaced Solomon's temple | 6 | |
7366951117 | monotheism | belief in Yahweh as the one and only god | 7 | |
7366974921 | Diaspora | communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | 8 | |
7366996284 | Tyrant | a person who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community | 9 | |
7367007239 | Democracy | a system of government in which all citizens have equal political and legal rights , privileges, and protections | 10 | |
7367025091 | Sacrifice | A gift given to a deity often with the aim of creating a relationship, gaining favor, and obligating the god to provide some benefit to the sacrificer | 11 | |
7368690741 | Vedas | refits texts that are our main source of information about the period | 12 | |
7368729699 | Varna | color; through the word came to indicate something akin to class | 13 | |
7368992407 | Brahmin | comprising priests and scholars | 14 | |
7368997617 | Kshatriya | warriors and officials | 15 | |
7369009434 | Vaishya | merchants, artisans, and landowners | 16 | |
7369016543 | Shudra | peasants and laborers | 17 | |
7368747594 | Jati | birth group | 18 | |
7368804062 | Karma | the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a "spirit" and determines what form it have in its next life cycle | 19 | |
7368834401 | Moksha | the Hindu concept of the spirit's "liberation" from the endless cycle of rebirths | 20 | |
7368843208 | Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama (An Indian prince) | 21 | |
7368861600 | Mahayana Buddha | embraced the popular new features | 22 | |
7368898459 | Theravada Buddhism | followed most of the original teachings of the founder | 23 | |
7368906270 | Hinduism | a general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since the past | 24 | |
7368955950 | Mauryan Empire | Indian's first centralized empire | 25 | |
7368927840 | avataras | incarnations | 26 | |
7368935572 | puja | service to the deity | 27 | |
7368949603 | moksha | liberation | 28 | |
7369022620 | rig veda | a collection of more than a thousand poetic hymns to many deities | 29 | |
7369132076 | stupas | large earthen mounds symbolizing the universe | 30 | |
7369044119 | Brahmanas | detailed prose descriptions of procedures for ritual and sacrifice | 31 | |
7369061636 | bodhisattvas | saintly men and women who had achieved enlightenment | 32 |
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