Ancient India Vocab
in Buddhism, this is a state of perfect peace
What is Nirvana?
the science of working with metals
What is Metallurgy?
The Aryan people began to collect and record these, texts that included hymns, descriptions of rituals, and philosophical and spiritual ideas about their gods and the soul.
What are the Vedas?
Both Hinduism and Buddhism taught the idea of this, the belief that souls are born and reborn many times, each time in a new body.
What is reincarnation?
a hard gemstone often used in jewelry
What is Jade?
This Indian religion, based on the teachings of Mahavira, teaches all life is sacred.
What is Jainism?
This is someone who works to spread religious beliefs
What are missionaries?
These people were a group that didn’t belong to a caste. They could only hold certain jobs that were often unpleasant
What are the Untouchables?
This man founded the Mauryan Empire.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
a person of high rank who owned land by owed loyalty to the king
What is a lord?
the division of Indian society into groups based on rank, wealth, or occupation
What is the Caste system?
a mixture of two or more metals
What is an alloy?
According to Hindu belief, people's choices in life will affect whether or not they have good or bad this.
What is Karma?
During this man's rule Mauryan warfare throughout India ended due to his conversion to Buddhism.
Who is Asoka?
a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony, and government
What is Confucianism?
This a large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Building houses that used indoor plumbing, established along the Indus River, and created a system of weights and measures are characteristics of this civilizations.
What is the Harappan Civilization?
Oldest of the Indian religions whose religious traditions are collected into Vedic texts and believe in many gods, such as Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu.
What is Hinduism?
Indian blacksmiths create alloys of two or more metals due to this property.
What is Alloys were often stronger than one metal alone?
a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
What is a sundial?
the number system we use today that was created by Indian scholars during the Gupta dynasty
Like the Mesopotamians, the Harappans built these systems to supply water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
According to Buddha, this is how can people avoid the process of reincarnation.
What is reaching Nirvana?
This advancement in mathematics is credited to Indian mathematicians.
What is the number zero?
a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Silk Road?