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Chapter 6 India and Southeast Asia Flashcards

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211953370Monsoonrainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains1
211953371VedasAncient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism.2
211953372Varnathe name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)3
211953373Karmathe effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation4
211953374MokshaThe Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.5
211953375Buddhafounder of Buddhism6
211953376Hinduisma body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a7
211953377Ashokaa ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism8
211953378Gupta empireGolden Age of India; ruled through central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism9
211953379Theater-statestate that acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies (as well as redistributing valuable resources) to attract and bind subjects to the center.10
211953380Malay peoplesA designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines, then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar.11

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