Buchholz WHAP set on Ancient India, open to all.
218223054 | Artha | Material success and social prestige, one of the four goals of life | 0 | |
218223055 | Arthashastra | Ancient Indian political treatise from the time of Chandragupra Maurya. | 1 | |
218223056 | Ashoka | Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, and, one of India's greatest emperors. | 2 | |
218223057 | Brahmins | Hindu caste of priests. | 3 | |
218223058 | Chandra Gupta | King of northern India (322?-298) and founder of the Gupta dynasty of Hindu kings of India that ruled until c. 185 B.C. | 4 | |
218223059 | Chandra Gupta II | Gupta ruler who ruled northern India from 374 A.D. to 415 A.D. and led India into its golden age. | 5 | |
218223060 | Chandragupta Maurya | Founder of Maurya dynasty; established first empire in Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization. | 6 | |
218223061 | Kanishka | Greatest of the Kushan emperors | 7 | |
218223062 | Kautalya | Chandragupta Mauryan's advisor, also wrote the Arthashastara. | 8 | |
218223063 | Kshatriyas | Second level of the varnas in the Hindu caste system; warriors. | 9 | |
218223064 | Kushan | Nomadic warriors who took power of Northern India, regulated the silk road. | 10 | |
218223065 | Samudra Gupta | Son of first Chandra Gupta became king in 335 A.D. expanded the empire with 40 years of war and conquest. | 11 | |
218223066 | Shudras | Laborers, craftworkers and servants in the Hindu caste system. | 12 | |
218223067 | Vaishyas | Hindu caste of cultivators, artisans, and merchants. | 13 | |
218223068 | Arjuna | (Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God. | 14 | |
218223069 | Bactria | The ancient region stretching from the Hindu Kush mountain range to the ancient Ganhara region of the Indian subcontinent. | 15 | |
218223070 | Krishna | In Hinduism, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu. | 16 | |
218223071 | Pataliputra | The capital city of the Gupta Empire and the Mauryan Empire. | 17 | |
218223072 | Bhagavad Gita | The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit. | 18 | |
218223073 | Rock and Pillar Edicts | A series of edicts on...rocks and pillars that reminded Mauryans to live righteous lives according to Buddhist principles, A series of edicts on...rocks and pillars that reminded Mauryans to live righteous lives according to Buddhist principles | 19 |