211953370 | Monsoon | rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | 1 | |
211953371 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 2 | |
211953372 | Varna | the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | 3 | |
211953373 | Karma | the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 4 | |
211953374 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 5 | |
211953375 | Buddha | founder of Buddhism | 6 | |
211953376 | Hinduism | a 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 a | 7 | |
211953377 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism | 8 | |
211953378 | Gupta empire | Golden Age of India; ruled through central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism | 9 | |
211953379 | Theater-state | state 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 | |
211953380 | Malay peoples | A 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 |
Chapter 6 India and Southeast Asia Flashcards
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