Ch. 6 vocab
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| 283869999 | monsoon | rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | 0 | |
| 283870000 | 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 | |
| 283870001 | jati | (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India | 2 | |
| 283870002 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 3 | |
| 283870003 | moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. (179) | 4 | |
| 283870004 | 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. (180) | 5 | |
| 283870005 | Mahayana Buddhism | one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone | 6 | |
| 283870006 | Theravada Buddhism | one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own efforts | 7 | |
| 283870007 | 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 | 8 | |
| 283870008 | Mauryan Empire | The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes. (184) | 9 | |
| 283870009 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism | 10 | |
| 283870010 | Mahabharat | Indian epic poem about two warring cousins. Is the longest poem in any language | 11 | |
| 283870011 | Bhagavad-Gita | (Hinduism) the sacred 'song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic) | 12 | |
| 283870012 | Tamil kingdom | kingdom on the southern tip of India; traded with the Roman Empire and China | 13 | |
| 283870013 | Gupta Empire | Golden Age of India; ruled through central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism | 14 | |
| 283870014 | 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. (186) | 15 | |
| 283870015 | 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. (p. 190) | 16 | |
| 283870016 | Funan | An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries C.E. It was centered in the rich rice-growing region of southern Vietnam, and it controlled the passage of trade across the Malaysian isthmus. (p. 191) | 17 |
