Ap world history classical India Flashcards

3268905443	Monsoon	Seasonal change in direction winds bring in rain and drought	0
3268905444	Himalayas	Mountain range to isolates india from trading eith chinA	1
3268905445	Harappa mohenjo daro	First civilizations	2
3268905446	Aryans	Invaded harrapppa and are from central asia. Male dominated. War dominated beloeved gods controlled natural forces	3
3268905447	Mantras	Verses in the rigveda	4
3268905448	Vedas	Religious text in hinduism written in vedic sanskrits Credited to brahma. Four materials -rigveda is most important	5
3268905449	Hinduism	Monotheistic polytheism - belief in one god with many figures sacred texts is vedas upanishads 3rd largest teligion	6
3268905450	Rigveda	Most important of the vedas written in verses called mantras worlds oldest religious text	7
3268905451	Mahabharata	Indias greatest epic poem contains philosphical material	8
3268905452	Ramayana	Epic poem that depcits ones duties of relationships	9
3268905453	Upanishads	A major book in Hinduism that is often in the form of dialogues that explored the Vedas and the religious issues that they raised.	10
3268905454	Caste system	Social class system	11
3268905455	Brahmin	Priests (Highest caste)	12
3268905456	Kshatyria	Warrior of governing class	13
3268905457	Vaishya	Traders and farmers	14
3268905458	Sudra	Common laberors	15
3268905459	Untouchable	Confined to few jobs like picking up dead bodies	16
3268905460	Dharma	Ones role in life	17
3268905461	Karma	Sums of someones actions	18
3268905462	Reincarnation	Belief that your soul is placed into another vessel	19
3268905463	Samsara	Reincarnation	20
3268905464	Moksha	Release from the cycle	21
3268905465	Om	Hinduism symbol	22
3268905466	Bhraman	Vedic sanskrit word found in vedas	23
3268905467	Bhrama	God of creation	24
3268905468	Vishnu	God of perserver	25
3268905469	Siva	God of destroyer	26
3268905470	Siddhartha gautama	Founded buddhism wealthy prince fasted and wandered india for fourty five years aka buddha	27
3268905471	Buddhism	Sixth largest religion spreads to asia not popular in india more of s philosophy	28
3268905472	Buddha	Encourages people to reject cast system and hindu gods	29
3268905473	Four noble truths	Life is pain , desires cause pain , to end suffer stop desires , achieve happiness	30
3268905474	Eightfold path	Right view,right intention, right speech , right action , right livelyhood ,right effort ,right mindfullness,right concetration	31
3268905475	Nirvana	Heaven , release from reincarnation	32
3268905476	Jainism	Created due to dissatifaction with hinduism 700 bce urged to denounce caste fringe religiom practiced by four million , vegans , believe in reincarnation	33
3268905477	Atman	in Hindu belief, a person's essential self	34
3268905478	Sallekhana	Self starvation	35
3268905479	Mauryan empire	Established in 321 bce	36
3268905480	Chandragupta	Established mauryan empire	37
3268905481	Ashoka	Came to power in 274 , used fear to conquest land , became a pacifist, concern with human life , converts to buddhism	38
3268905482	Kanishka		39
3268905483	Kushan kingdom	Very wealthy due to position on silk road invaded subcontinent	40
3268905484	Natalanda university	One of the first universities eight buildings three libraries	41
3268905485	Sanskrit	Aryans language	42