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| 985381516 | Aryans | Indo-European nomadic pastoralists who replaced Harappan civilization; militarized society | 0 | |
| 985381517 | Sanskrit | The sacred and classical Indian language | 1 | |
| 985381518 | Chandragupta | king/founder of Mauryan empire, he seized power along the ganges river following alexander the greats incursion; first of the Mauryan rulers to unify the entire subcontinent; highly autocratic; grandfather of Ashoka | 2 | |
| 985381519 | Ashoka | third ruler of the Mauryan empire in India; believed in Dharma; converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing | 3 | |
| 985381520 | Dharma | duties or obligations of each caste; Hinduism: stands for law, obligation, duty; means to live life as one should | 4 | |
| 985381521 | reincarnation | Stressed principle; Hinduism: belief that person may be reborn successively into one of 5 classes of living beings depending on the person's actions in his/her previous life | 5 | |
| 985381522 | Buddha | creator of a major religion; born in 6th century BCE; became an ascetic; found enlightment under a bo tree and taught that enlightenment could be achieved only by abandoning desires for all earthly things | 6 | |
| 985381523 | Hinduism | body of religious/philosophical beliefs characterized by belief in reincarnation and supreme being of many forms by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth | 7 | |
| 985381524 | varna ( caste system ) | hindu social class system that controlled everything; set of rigid social categories that determined not only a persons occupation and economic potential, but also his/her position in society | 8 | |
| 985381525 | Vishnu | hindu god of sacrifice; in trinity of gods, the preserver | 9 | |
| 985381526 | 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 | 10 | |
| 985381527 | Upanishads | later books of the vedas, contained sophisticated and philosophical ideas; utilized by Brahmans to restore religious authority | 11 | |
| 985381528 | Shiva | Hindu god of destruction and reproduction; personification of cosmic forces of change | 12 | |
| 985381529 | Nirvana | In buddhist teachings, ideal state in which the individual loses himself in attainment of an impersonal beatitude | 13 | |
| 985381530 | Rig Veda | collection of 1,028 sanskirt hymns composed in 1500 BC or earlier; Hnduism's oldest sacred text | 14 | |
| 985381531 | Siddhartha Gautama | Buddha "enlightened one"; Indian prince who gave up worldly pleasures | 15 | |
| 985381532 | Moksha | liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth | 16 | |
| 985381533 | Four Noble Truths | Contains the essence of Buddha's teaching 1: the truth of suffering (dukkha) 2: the truth of the origin of suffering (samudaya) 3: the truth of the end of suffering (nirodha) 4: the truth of the path to the end of suffering (magga) | 17 | |
| 985381534 | Atman | essence that is eternal, unchanging, and indistinguishable from the essence of the universe | 18 | |
| 985381535 | Eightfold Path | right view, right intentions, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right conventration, right mindfulness | 19 | |
| 985381536 | Samsara | the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound | 20 |
