Hinduism
This is a central difference between Hinduism and other major world religions like Buddhism or Christianity.
What is not having a single founder or origin?
The Creator
Who is Brahma?
Priests or scholars.
Who are Brahmins?
This is the Hindu belief that a person's soul is reborn into a new body after death.
What is reincarnation?
This is the name of the first emperor of the first unification of India.
What is Chandragupta Maurya?
The Gupta Empire of ancient India is referred to by this vocabulary term, meaning a time of great prosperity and advancement.
What is a golden age?
These sacred texts of Hinduism contain Hindu beliefs.
What is the Upanishads?
The Preserver
Who is Vishnu?
Merchants / farmers / business class.
Who are Vaishyas?
This is the definition of the Hindu concept of Karma.
What is the concept that good or evil done in a past life determines what happens to one's soul in the next life?
Chandragupta Maurya's rule of ancient India was marked by his following the advice of his adviser Kautilya, whose book "The Arthashastra" proposed the use of these in maintaining paranoid control of an empire.
What are secret police, spies, and assassins?
Evidence exists that this practice flourished during the Gupta Empire, with artifacts from all over the world at the time.
What is trade?
These sacred texts of Hinduism are a collection of religious literature (including hymns, prayers, poems, etc.) containing eternal truths.
What is the Vedas?
The Destroyer / Transformer.
Who is Shiva?
Shudras.
Who are the servants / peasants?
This is what the Hindu concept of dharma means.
What is one's life's duty?
This is the most famous emperor of ancient India, whose edicts were carved into pillars and whose symbol is still seen on the Indian flag to this day.
Who is Ashoka?
This is an example of an advancement in mathematics developed during the Gupta Empire.
What is zero OR decimal places OR Arabic numerals OR pi?
This is what the Hindu concept of ahimsa means.
What is non-violence?
The river goddess.
Who is Ganga?
The Hindu caste system, based in the karma belief of being born into a life one deserves, led to an incredible amount of this unfair and dehumanizing practice.
What is discrimination?
This is the ancient Indian language.
What is Sanskrit?
Just as legend says that his grandfather gave up his power and rule in favor of asceticism (giving up all worldly pleasure), so the more famous emperor of the Mauryan Empire gave up wars of conquest to embrace an imperfect version of this.
What is Buddhism?
Creating a calendar based on the sun and proving that the earth was round were examples of advances in this field of study that happened during the Gupta Empire.
What is astronomy?
In Hinduism, this is the name given to the ultimate life force or source of everything in the universe.
What is Brahman?
The Remover of Obstacles
Who is Ganesha?
The formal name of the outcasts, the untouchables, who do the dirtiest jobs like handling human waste.
What is Dalits?
The Hindu concept that people are born with a set of skills that help them serve one of the four general needs of a functioning society is called this.
What are varnas?
These are the four goals of Ashoka, written into his edicts which were carved into pillars and walls throughout the empire.
What are Buddhist Principles, General Welfare, Justice, and Security?
Ayurvedic Medicine, a branch of medicine still practiced today, can trace its origins over 1500 years in the past where the ancient Indians in the Gupta Empire were already doing these medical procedures.
What is surgery?