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| 7667192583 | Subcontinent | The Indian _________ encompasses the modern nations of Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, and the adjacent island of Sri Lanka | 0 | |
| 7667193737 | Monsoon | Season winds in the Indian Ocean caused by differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia | 1 | |
| 7667196076 | Vedas | Early Indian sacred "knowledge", the literal meaning of the term. Long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down | 2 | |
| 7667199228 | Varna | The four major social division | 3 | |
| 7667204625 | Brahmin | The class comprising of priests and scholars | 4 | |
| 7667205852 | Kshatriya | The class consisting of warriors and officials | 5 | |
| 7667206553 | Vaishya | The class consisting of merchants, artisans, and landowners | 6 | |
| 7667207355 | Shudra | The class consisting of peasants and laborers | 7 | |
| 7667209362 | Jati | Regional groups of people who have a common occupational sphere and who marry, eat, and generally interact with other members of their group. | 8 | |
| 7667211193 | Karma | In 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 the next cycle | 9 | |
| 7667213456 | Moksha | The HIndu concept of the spirit's "liberation" from the endless cycle of rebirths. These are various avenues - such as physical discipline, meditation, and acts of devotion to the gods. | 10 | |
| 7667214472 | Buddha | An Indian Prince named Siddharta Gautama who renounce his wealth and social position to search for the truth after becoming "enlightened" | 11 | |
| 7667216395 | Mahayana Buddhism | "Great Vehicle" branch of Buddhism followed in China, Japan, and Central Asia. The focus is on reverence for BUddha and for bochisattuas. | 12 | |
| 7667218865 | Thereavada Buddhism | "Way of the Elders" branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast ASia. Thereavada remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha. | 13 | |
| 7667220767 | Atman | Breath, separated from the body at death. Later reborn in another body, or deeds, of the atman in its previous reincarnations | 14 | |
| 7667222355 | Reincarnation | The philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body | 15 | |
| 7667226338 | Hinduism | A general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity | 16 | |
| 7667234084 | Mauryan Empire | The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE and survived until 184 BCE. | 17 | |
| 7667237055 | Ashoka | Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (273-232 BCE). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars. | 18 | |
| 7667238974 | Mahabharata | A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita... | 19 | |
| 7667240773 | Bhagavad-Gita | The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Kirshna on duty and the fate of the spirit. | 20 | |
| 7667242809 | Nirvana | "Snuffing out the flame" the release from the cycle of reincarnations and achievement of a state of perpetual tranquility | 21 | |
| 7667244052 | Bhakti | The devotional worship directed to the one supreme deity, usually Vishnu, or Shiva, by whose grace salvation may be attended | 22 | |
| 7667245190 | Vishnu | The second god in the Hindu triumvirate. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction | 23 | |
| 7667247795 | Tamil Kingdoms | The kingdoms of Southern India, inhabited primarily by Speakers of Dravidian languages which developed in partial isolation, and somewhat differently. | 24 | |
| 7667249168 | Gupta Empire | A powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent | 25 | |
| 7667250794 | Theater-state | HIstorians' term for a state that acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies | 26 | |
| 7667252403 | Malay peoples | An ethnic group of Austronesian peoples predominantly inhabiting the Malay peninsula, eastern Sumatra and coastal Borneo. | 27 | |
| 7667254170 | Puja | A prayer ritual performed by Hindus to host, honour and worship one or more deities, or to spiritually celebrate an event. | 28 | |
| 7667255701 | Funan | An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries CE, centered in the rich rice growing region of Southern Vietnam. | 29 | |
| 7667257979 | Srivijaya | A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra between the seventh and eleventh centuries Ce. It amassed wealth and power. | 30 | |
| 7667259191 | Borobodur | A massive state monument on the Indonesian island of Java, erected Sailendra KIngs around 800 CE. The winding ascent through ten levels decorated with rich relief carving.. | 31 | |
| 7667261863 | Arabic Numerals | The system was adopted by Arabic mathematicians in Baghdad and passed on to the Arabs farther West. | 32 |
