Vocabulary
What is Sanskrit?
Choices in life determine this.
What is bad or good karma?
Reaching nirvana can do this.
How can people avoid reincarnation?
India's first civilization
What is the Harapaan civilization?
Mauryan society had seven occupational groups: philosophers, farmers, soldiers, herdsmen, artisans, magistrates, and councilors.
What is the Mauryan caste system?
A community made up of many family members.
What is Gramma?
The basis of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
This person is Buddha.
Who is Siddhartha?
Houses with indoor plumbing, system of weights and measures, and the first system of writing in India
What are the characteristics of the Harapaan Civilizations?
Chandragupta decided to become this.
What is a Jainist monk?
Rites and passages for different stages in a person's life?
What is samskaras?
Deities like Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu
What/Who is the Brahman?
These people were sent by Asoka to spread their religious beliefs to other kingdoms in Asia.
Who are Buddhist missionaries?
Mud brick was used for this.
What are houses?
Chandragupta’s grandson who became king, and was a strong ruler, the strongest of all the Mauryan emperors.
Who is Asoka?
A mountain range northwest of India.
What is the Hindu Kush?
Spiritual duties
What is dharma?
One of the most important rituals in Buddhism.
What is pilgrimage?
Theories suggest invaders destroyed the cities or natural disasters, like floods, droughts, or earthquakes, caused the civilization to collapse.
What caused the end of the Harapaan civilization?
This caused the end of the Gupta Empire.
Who was the Hun army?
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Who invaded the Gupta Empire?
He founded the Mauryan Empire.
Chandragupta Maurya
The soul
What is the atman?
People can overcome ignorance, suffering is a part of human existence, and suffering comes from the desire for material possessions
What are Buddha's 4 Noble Truths?
Mesopotamia and the Harapaan civilizations are similar due to this.
What is an irrigation system?
What is the number zero?