Chapter 6 Flashcards

The Earth and Its People Ch.6 India and Southeast Asia

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.