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| 11011606592 | Analects | A collection of short literary or philosophical extracts. | 0 | |
| 11011606593 | Aryans | Indo-European nomadic pastoralists who replaced Harappan civilization; militarized society. | 1 | |
| 11011606594 | Ashoka | (r. 273-232 B.C.) Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; completed conquests of Indian subcontinent; converted to Buddhism and sponsored spread of new religion throughout his empire. | 2 | |
| 11011606595 | Atman | The spiritual life principle of the universe, esp. when regarded as inherent in the real self of the individual. A person's soul. | 3 | |
| 11011606597 | Brahmans | A member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood | 4 | |
| 11011606598 | Buddhism | A widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century bc. | 5 | |
| 11011606600 | Castes | Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status. | 6 | |
| 11011606601 | Confucianism | (551-479 bc), Chinese philosopher; Latinized name of Kongfuze, "Kong the master." His ideas about the importance of practical moral values, collected by his disciples in the Analects, formed the basis of the philosophy known as Confucianism. | 7 | |
| 11011606602 | Daoism | Philosophy associated with Laozi; stressed need for alignment with Dao, or cosmic force. | 8 | |
| 11011606604 | Dharma | The caste position and career determined by a person'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. | 9 | |
| 11011606607 | Great Wall of China | Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the north; initiated during Qin dynasty and reign of Shi Huangdi. | 10 | |
| 11011606608 | Gupta Empire | Dynasty that succeeded the Kushnas in the 3rd century C.E.; built empire that extended to all but the southern regions of Indian sub-continent; less centralized than Mauryan Empire. | 11 | |
| 11011606609 | Han Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin in 202 B.C.; ruled for next 400 years. | 12 | |
| 11011606610 | Han Wudi | Han Wudi, named Liuche, ascended the throne at the age of 15. He was the fifth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-8AD) and reigned from 141BC to 86BC, which is one of the most celebrated periods in Chinese history. | 13 | |
| 11011606611 | Hinduism | A major religious and cultural tradition of the Indian subcontinent, developed from Vedic religion. | 14 | |
| 11011606613 | Karma | (in Hinduism and Buddhism) The sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. Destiny or fate, following as effect from cause. | 15 | |
| 11011606614 | Kshatriya | A member of the second of the four great Hindu castes, the military caste. The traditional function of the Kshatriyas is to protect society by fighting in wartime and governing in peacetime. | 16 | |
| 11011606615 | Laozi | Chinese philosopher who is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism. | 17 | |
| 11011606616 | Lateen Sail | Triangular sails attached to the masts of dhows by long booms, or yard arms, which extended diagonally high across the fore and aft of the ship. | 18 | |
| 11011606617 | Legalism | Excessive adherence to law or formula. Dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith. | 19 | |
| 11011606618 | Liu Bang | Man of peasant background who rose to become the founder of China's Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). | 20 | |
| 11011606619 | Mauryan Dynasty | Dynasty established in Indian subcontinent in 4th century B.C. following invasion by Alexander the Great. | 21 | |
| 11011606620 | Moksha | (in Hinduism and Jainism) Release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma. | 22 | |
| 11011606621 | Nirvana | The Buddhist state of enlightenment, a state of tranquility. | 23 | |
| 11011606624 | Qin Dynasty | Established in 221 B.C. at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou dynasty; fell in 207 B.C. | 24 | |
| 11011606626 | Reincarnation | The successive attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous lives. | 25 | |
| 11011606627 | Rig Veda | The oldest and principal of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns composed in the 2nd millennium bc in early Sanskrit. | 26 | |
| 11011606628 | Scholar-gentry | Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China. | 27 | |
| 11011606629 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the brief Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. | 28 | |
| 11011606630 | Shiva | Hindu, god of destruction and reproduction; worshipped as the personification of cosmic forces of change. | 29 | |
| 11011606631 | Shudra | A member of the worker caste, lowest of the four Hindu castes. | 30 | |
| 11011606632 | Siddhartha Gautama | The historical founder of Buddhism, was born the Prince of Kapilavastu, son of King Suddhodana, in India in 623 B.C. At the age of 29, after seeing an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a monk, Siddhartha decided to leave the royal life and his family to search for the meaning of existence. | 31 | |
| 11011606633 | Terra Cotta Army | The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracota figurines depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China. | 32 | |
| 11011606634 | Universalizing Religions | A religion in which the followers attempt to appeal to all people, and actively seek concerts wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location. There are three religions that practice this - they are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. | 33 | |
| 11011606635 | Upanishads | Each of a series of Hindu sacred treatises written in Sanskrit c.800-200 bc, expounding the Vedas in predominantly mystical and monistic terms. | 34 | |
| 11011606636 | Vaishya | A member of the third of the four Hindu castes, comprising the merchants and farmers. | 35 | |
| 11011606637 | Varna | Clusters of caste groups in Aryan society; four social castes- Brahmans (priests), warriors, merchants, and peasants; beneath four Aryan castes was group of socially untouchable Dasas. | 36 | |
| 11011606638 | Vedas | Aryan hymns originally transmitted orally but written down in sacred books from the 6th century B.C. | 37 | |
| 11011606639 | Vishnu | The Brahman, later Hindu, god of sacrifice; widely worshipped. | 38 | |
| 11011606640 | Warring States | The Warring States period in ancient Chinese history -- which followed the period known as Spring and Autumn (770-476 B.C.) during the Chou (Zhou) Dynasty -- ran from about 475-221 B.C. It was a period of violence and chaos during which the philosopher Sun-Tzu is said to have lived and culture to have flourished. | 39 |
