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| 211030135 | Monsoon | rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains. | 0 | |
| 211030136 | Vedas | sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests. | 1 | |
| 211030137 | Varna | the four major social divisions: Brahmin priest, warrior/administrators, merchants/farmers, and untouchables/laborers. | 2 | |
| 211030138 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation. | 3 | |
| 211030139 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 4 | |
| 211030140 | Buddha | An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of Buddha) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism. | 5 | |
| 211030141 | Hinduism | An eastern religion which evolved from an ancient Aryan religion in which followers strive to free their soul from reincarnation until the soul is finally freed. This religion is practiced primarily in India. | 6 | |
| 211030142 | Ashoka | Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing. | 7 | |
| 211030143 | Gupta empire | Powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture. | 8 | |
| 211030144 | 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. | 9 |
