The Earth and Its People Ch.6 India and Southeast Asia
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| 83426861 | Monsoon | Seasonal winds | |
| 83426862 | Vedas | Early Indian sacred "knowledge—the literal meaning of the term—long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down. | |
| 83426863 | Varna | social identity of great importance in Indian history | |
| 83426864 | Jati | social identity of great importance in Indian history | |
| 83426865 | Karma | Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a "spirit and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. | |
| 83426866 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's "liberation from the endless cycle of rebirths. | |
| 83426867 | Buddha | Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who renounced his wealth and social position. | |
| 83426868 | Hinduism | A general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. | |
| 83426869 | Mauryan Empire | The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. | |
| 83426870 | 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. | |
| 83426871 | Mahabharata | A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India | |
| 83426872 | 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. | |
| 83426873 | Gupta Empire | A powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley | |
| 83426874 | Theater-State | Historians' term for a state that acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies | |
| 83426875 | 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. |
