Chapter 6 India and Southeast Asia Flashcards

211953370	Monsoon	rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains	1
211953371	Vedas	Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism.	2
211953372	Varna	the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)	3
211953373	Karma	the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation	4
211953374	Moksha	The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.	5
211953375	Buddha	founder of Buddhism	6
211953376	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	7
211953377	Ashoka	a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism	8
211953378	Gupta empire	Golden Age of India; ruled through central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism	9
211953379	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.	10
211953380	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.	11