History 1
In charge of religious ceremonies that were important.
Brahman
When the soul is reborn into another form of life.
Reincarnation.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The founder of Buddhism.
The lowest level of Indian society.
The Untouchables
The second caste also known as warriors.
Kshatriyas
Early Hindus believed in the existence of a single force in the universe, a form of ultimate reality or God, called_______________________.
Brahma
Peasants who worked at other forms of manual labor.
Sudras
In the sixth century B.C., a new doctrine, called __________________, appeared in northern India.
Buddhism
Merchants who engaged in commerce.
Vaisyas
_____________________ had its origins in the religious beliefs of the Aryan people who settled in India after 1500 B.C.
Hinduism
__________________is a divine law that requires all people to do their duty.
Dharma
The ___________ were a Semitic-speaking people who exploited the use of iron weapons to establish an empire by 700 B.C.
Assyrians
After the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, the _________ made Babylonia the leading state in western Asia
Chaldeans
_______ divided the Persian Empire into 20 different provinces called satrapies.
Darius
The force generated by a person’s action that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life is called___________________.
karma
The Persian military was known as the _________ because their numbers were never allowed to fall below 10 thousand.
Immortals
Who created a powerful Persian state that stretched from Asia Minor to western India?
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus's greatest successor and expanded Persia to Egypt.
Cambyses
Who added a new Persian province in western India that extended to the Indus River?
Darius
At the beginning of the world, the good spirit of ___________ was opposed by the evil spirit of _________.
Ahuramazda, Ahriman
Describe the different wind pattern during India’s 2 monsoon seasons.
Summer-warm/wet air from the southwest. Winter-cold/dry air from the northeast.
What does ascetics mean?
People who practiced self-denial to achieve an understanding of ultimate reality.
Who rebuilt Babylon as the center of his empire and gave it a reputation as one of the great cities of the ancient world?
Nebuchadnezzar II
Who was one of the last Assyrian kings and established one of the world’s first libraries in Nineveh?
Ashurbanipal
How do we know that there must have been well-organized governments in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
The house was square and the pattern. Public wells. Drainage system. Trash chutes.