AP World History #8 Flashcards

7353169226	What did Aryan mean?	noble people	0
7353179260	Who did the Aryans likely clash with?	Dravidians	1
7353184495	What did the Dravidian and Indo-European people do?	intermarried	2
7353190765	What did the Aryans depend mostly on in the beginning?	pastoral economy	3
7353196741	Why were horses expensive in India?	they were rare because they didn't breed well in India	4
7353211688	What did Aryan people often own extensive amounts of?	cattle	5
7353218136	What did the Aryans do instead of writing?	composed poems and songs	6
7353226785	What was the Aryans sacred language called?	Sanskrit	7
7353231727	What was the Aryans less formal language called?	Prakrit	8
7353240967	What was one of the earliest orally transmitted works?	Vedas	9
7353244832	What is the most important Vedas called?	Rig Veda	10
7353248566	What does veda mean?	wisdom or knowledge	11
7353264471	What did the Aryan people call the indigenous peoples?	dasas	12
7353267958	What does dasas mean?	enemies or subject peoples	13
7353270302	Who was Indra?	the Aryan war god	14
7353276480	What was the Aryan leader known as?	raja	15
7353279847	What was the word raja related to?	the latin word rex	16
7353284876	What did the Aryans regard as a symbol of wealth in their society?	cattle	17
7353307481	Where did the Aryan people settle during the Vedic Age?	Punjab	18
7353316312	What did Aryans lose once they began to rely on agriculture?	tribal political organization	19
7353323897	Where does the term caste come from?	the Portuguese word casta	20
7353328992	What did varna mean?	color	21
7353341029	What did the Aryans refer to themselves as?	wheat-colored and darker-skinned Dravidians	22
7353349873	What was brahmins?	priests	23
7353352173	What was kshatriyas?	warriors and aristocrats	24
7353357196	What was vaishyas?	cultivators, artisans, and merchants	25
7353362529	What was shudras?	landless, peasants, and serfs	26
7353368883	What was untouchables?	people who performed unpleasant tasks	27
7353414272	What was the complicated hierarchy of subcastes known as?	Jati	28
7353437949	What did the caste system allow foreign people to do?	find a place in Indian society	29
7353442888	What type of society was the Aryan society?	patriarchal	30
7353448232	When could women own property?	when a family had no male heirs	31
7353454781	What did the Lawbook of Manu deal with?	social relations	32
7353462342	What did the lawbook say the most important job of women was?	bear children and maintain wholesome homes	33
7353470305	What was it called when a women voluntarily threw herself on the funeral pyre with her husband to join him in death?	sati	34
7353752577	How did Hinduism come to be?	the fusion of Aryan tradition with Dravidian beliefs	35
7353784189	What was important to Aryan religion?	ritual sacrifices	36
7354297713	How many sacrifices did families perform per day?	no fewer than 5	37
7354308405	Which animals were sacrificed?	cattle, sheep, goats, and horses	38
7354329567	Who did mystics draw inspiration from?	Dravidian people	39
7354610828	What does Upanishads mean?	a sitting in front of	40
7354623975	What does Upanishad refer to?	gathering before a sage for discussion of religious issues	41
7354647211	What is Brahman?	the idea that each person participates in a larger cosmic order and forms a small part of a universal soul	42
7354664823	What happened to the souls of human after they died according to Brahman?	the believed that humans would be reborn as animals or plants or sometimes other humans	43
7354676496	What was samsara?	a doctrine that held that upon death souls would temporarily go to the World of Fathers and then return to the natural world as someone of something else.	44
7354694013	What was karma?	a doctrine which accounted for the specific incarnations souls experienced	45
7354715278	What happened if an individual lives a pure and virtuous life?	they would be reborn into a purer and more honorable existence	46
7354726909	What was moksha?	a state of deep dreamless sleep that came with permanent liberation from physical incarnation	47
7354772304	What did samsara and karma do?	reinforce the social classes	48