AP World History Chapter 6 Flashcards

5818824446	untouchables	low social caste in Hindi culture; performed tasks that were considered polluting-street sweepin, removal of human waste, and tanning	0
5818824447	transmigration	belief in a number of indian religious traditions that the souls of living creatures persisted in supernatural realms and returned to inhabit other humans or animals after death	1
5818824448	Ramayana	one of the great epic tales from classical india; traces adventures of King Rama and his wife, Sita; written 4th to 2nd centuries bce	2
5818824449	Mauryas	dynasty established in indian subcontinent in 4th century bce following invasion of alex the great	3
5818824450	Arthashastra	political treatise written during reign of Chandragupta Maurya; advocated use of spies and assassins, bribery, and scientific forms of warfare	4
5818824451	Kushanas	dynasty that succeeded mauryans; promoted buddhism	5
5818824452	gurus	originally refered to as brahmans who served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the Guptas	6
5818824453	Tamil	spoken indian language used other than sanskrit	7
5818824454	dharma	the caste position and career determined by a person's birth; hindu culture required that one accept one's social position and perform occupation to the best of one's ability in order to have a better situation in the next life	8
5818824455	reincarnation	the successinve attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous lives	9
5818824456	Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama; founder of Buddhism	10
5818824457	Chandragupta	founder of mauryan dynasty; established first empire in indian subcontinent; first centralized government since the Harrapan civilization	11
5818824458	Ashoka	grandson of Chandragupta; completed conquest of indian subcontinent; converted to buddhism and sponsered spread of new religion throughout hos empire	12
5818824459	Upanishads	later books of the vedas; contained sophisticated and sublime philosophical ideas; utilized by brahmans to restore religious athority	13
5818824460	mandala	cosmic diagram; part of the hindu belief system	14
5818824461	Kamasutra	written by Vatsayana during Gupta era; offered instruction on all aspects of life for higher caste males, invluding grooming, hygiene, etiquette, selection of wives, and lovemaking	15
5818824462	karma	the sum of merots accumulated by a soul at any given point in time; determined the caste to which the soul would be assigned in the next life	16
5818824463	Mahabharata	indian epic of war, peoncely honor, love, and social duty; written down in the last centuries bce; previously handed down in oral form	17
5818824464	Nirvana	the buddhist state of enlightenment, a state of tranquility	18
5818824465	Maurya Kautilya	political advisor to Chandragupta Mauyra; one of the authors of Artashastra; believed in scientific application of warfare	19
5818824466	stupas	stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be relics of the Buddha; preserved buddhist architectural form	20
5818824467	Guptas	dynasty that succeeded the Kushans in the 3rd century bce; built empire that extended to all but the southern regions of indian subcontinent; less centralized than mauyran empire	21
5818824468	Sanskrit	the sacred and classical indian language	22
5818824469	Skanda Gupta	last of the able rulers of the gupta dynasty; following his 5th century reign, the empire dissolved under the pressure of nomadic invasions	23