AP World History Vocab 5 Flashcards
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7529430001 | Provinces | Administrative divisions of a country | 0 | |
7529430002 | Districts | 1 | ||
7529430003 | Civil service examination | a test given to qualify candidates for positions in the government | 2 | |
7529430004 | Brahmins | 3 | ||
7529430005 | Dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 4 | |
7529430006 | Jainism | 5 | ||
7529430007 | Ahisma | The term meaning no-harm or non-violence | 6 | |
7529430008 | Ascetic | One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury | 7 | |
7529430009 | Enlightenment | 8 | ||
7529430010 | Nirvana | The state of englightenment for Buddhists. | 9 | |
7529430011 | Reincarnation | Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are reborn into new bodies over and over. | 10 | |
7529430012 | Monasteries | religious communities formed by monks | 11 | |
7529430013 | Inoculations | 12 | ||
7529430014 | Confucianism | a belief system based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Confucius | 13 | |
7529430015 | Daoism | a Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature | 14 | |
7529430016 | Caste System | A Hindu social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life | 15 | |
7529430017 | Varna | a basic subdivision of humanity in the Hindu caste system | 16 | |
7529430018 | Untouchables | lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society | 17 | |
7529430019 | Dalits | untouchables | 18 | |
7529430020 | Jatis | 19 |