AP world chapter 6 Flashcards

234635540	India	after the demise of the indus-valley civilization, indo-european warriors migrated into	0
234635541	aryas, dasas	the struggle between ____ and ____ led to the development of the system of varna	1
234635542	color equivalent to class	varna means	2
234635543	priests, scholars	class 1. brahim	3
234635544	warriors	class 2. kshatriya	4
234635545	merchants	class 3. vaishya	5
234635546	peasants, laborers	class 4. shudra	6
234635547	untouchables	outside the system and consisted of persons who did demeaning or ritually polluting work such as work that involved contact with the dead bodies of animals or humans	7
234635548	hereditary occupational groups	jati	8
234635549	jati	the four varna were subdivided into	9
234635550	caste	jati is also known by the portuguese word	10
234635551	atman	immortal spirit	11
234635552	rig veda	over 1000 poetic hymns to various deities	12
234635553	bhagauad gita	the most renowned of all indian sacred texts	13
234635554	ramayana	poem concerning the war waged by the hero Rama against Ravan, the demon-king of lanka	14
234635555	ramayana	great hindu epic poem concerning the war waged by the legendary hero Rama against Ravan, the demon-king of lanka who was terrorizing the earth	15
234635556	hanuman	king of the monkeys	16
234635557	moksha	liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth	17
234635558	upanishads	ancient hindu scriptures	18
234635559	mahavira	jainism was founded by	19
234635560	living thing	jains practiced nonviolence and went to extremes in their attempt not to kill any	20
234635561	swastika	jainism's religious symbol	21
234635562	lucky or favorable	the swastika is derived from the hindu "svastika" meaning	22
234635563	rice	ceremonies typically open and close with the creation of the swastika mark around the altar several times with	23
234635564	naked and starved themselves to death	the most extreme jains went	24
234635565	siddhartha gautama	who founded buddhism?	25
234635566	enlightened one	buddha means	26
234635567	enlightenment	four noble truths and the eightfold path would lead the individual to	27
234635568	nirvana	the individual's goal was to achieve	28
234635569	the release from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth	nirvana	29
234635570	theravada, mahayana	buddhism broke into two major schools	30
234635571	preserver	vishnu	31
234635572	destroyer	shiva	32
234635573	service to a deity	puja	33
234635574	temples and shrines	hindu worship centered on	34
234635575	ganges river	the ____ became one of the most popular pilgrimage sites	35
234635576	cow	the ____ is hinduism's most sacred animal	36
234642755	magadha	the core of the mauryan empire was the kingdom of	37
234642756	chandragupta	the mauryan empire was founded by	38
234642757	kautilya	a machiavellian brahim, ____, guided chandragupta	39
234642758	pataliputra	the mauryan government made its capital at the walled and moated city of	40
234642759	akosha	the most famous mauryan emperor	41
234642760	chandragupta	akosha was the grandson of	42
234642761	bindusara	akosha was the son of	43
234642762	184 b.c.e.	the mauryan empire collapsed in	44
234642763	shakas	iranian people known as scythians	45
235696911	bhagauad gita	comprises roughly 700 verses and is part of the mahabharata	46
235696912	mahabharata	concerns the lengthy feud between two related tribes, the pandavas and the kauravas	47
235696913	bhagauad gita	covers many aspects of hindu thought between arjuna and the god krishna on the battlefield	48
235696914	yoga, special diets, or meditation	people who reacted against the rigid social hierarchy went to the forests and pursued	49
235696915	upanishads	the ideas of people who fled to the forest are reflected in	50
235696916	architecture, science, art, politics, philosophy	jainism had a great influence on.... ASAPP	51
235696917	city dwellers	the less extreme jains devoted themselves to	52
235696918	first noble truth	everything in life is suffering and sorrow	53
235696919	second noble truth	the cause of all suffering is people's selfish desire for the temporary pleasures of this world	54
235696920	third noble truth	the way to end all suffering is to end all desires	55
235696921	fourth noble truth	the way to overcome such desires and attain enlightenment is to follow the eightfold path, which is called the middle way between desires and self-denial	56
235696922	pressure from new religious movements like jainism and buddhism	____ led to a reform of the old vedic religion	57
235696923	vishnu, shiva	what tow deities took the places of honor in the hindu pantheon?	58
235696924	goddess devi	also prominent in the new religious tradtion was the	59
235696925	buddhism	akosha converted to	60
235696926	carnage in a brutal war of expansion in the south	akosha was shaken by	61
235696927	kushans	the ____ were from northwest china	62
235696928	deccan	the satavahana dynasty established an independent state in the	63
235696929	tamil kingdoms	southern india was divided among three	64
235696930	cholas, pandyas, cheras	the three tamil kingdoms	65
235696931	artistic achievement	the mauryan empire was a great period of great	66
235696932	magadha	the gupta empire began with the kingdom of	67
237682514	moksha	by distancing oneself from desire for things in this world, one would reach	68
237682516	priests, scholars	who were the brahims?	69
237682518	rig veda	over 1000 poetic hymns to various deities	70
237682521	the foundation of hinduism is the vedic religion of arya peoples of northern india	hinduism can be described as an evolution of the vedic religions- why?	71
237682522	alex the great	the mauryan government united much of india after the death of whom?	72
237682524	sanskrit language in copper plates	the earliest deciphered indian writing was what?	73
237682526	25 percent tax on agriculture	the chief source of revenue for the gupta empire was what?	74
237682528	created arabic numerals, concept of zero	one of the most important contributions made by the gupta empire was what?	75
237682530	agricultural products, iron deposits, salt and metal	during the gupta period, india developed an extensive land and sea trading network by exporting what products?	76
237682532	the financial burden of defense against the huns	why did the gupta empire collapse in 550 c.e.?	77
237682534	india, china	most of southeast asia's early commerce was conducted with what two countries?	78
237682536	isthmus	funan dominated what key location for trade?	79
237682538	aka untouchables. lived in slums. did demeaning work	who are dalits?	80
237682540	jainism	mahariva founded ____	81
237688048	dalits	untouchables are also known as	82