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Vocabulary
Judaism
India
Hinduism
Buddhism
100
Belief in one god
What is Monotheism?
100
Place that Judaism originated.
What is the Middle East?
100
a social class in Hinduism that is determined by one’s actions in their previous life
What is the caste system
100
Holy book of Hindus
What are the Vedas?
100
Founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)?
200
the exchange and spread of goods and ideas through contact between people from different cultures
What is Cultural Diffusion?
200
The holy book of Jews
What is the Torah?
200
vast network of land and maritime trade routes between the Mediterranean Sea and East Asia
What are the Silk Roads?
200
Place that Hinduism originated
What is the Indus River Valley, India
200
Holy book of Buddhist
What is the Tripitaka?
300
Polytheism
What is the belief in many gods?
300
10 Commandments
What is are the moral guidelines for Jews
300
Began rule by fighting brutal wars to gain territory but converted to Buddhism, based all of his government policies on Buddhist teachings and established laws called Ashoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
Who is Ashoka?
300
moral code of conduct for Buddhists
What is the Eightfold Path?
400
A time of complex civilizations expanded to establish large land empires, were more interconnected through trade and made great contributions. Most of the major belief systems were established during this time.
What is the Classical Era?
400
Founder of Judaism
Who is Abraham
400
Gold Age
What are periods of great wealth, prosperity, stability, and cultural and scientific achievement. Innovations are produced in visual arts, architecture, literature, philosophy, and science and technology in a short period of time in one geographic area, but are carried to other civilizations through cultural diffusion and passed down to new generations through the process of collective learning.
400
Reincarnation
What is the belief that the soul is reborn following death?
400
Following this and avoiding extreme pleasure and pain
What is the Middle Path?
500
refers to any people or ethnic group forced to leave its traditional homeland, and the spreading out of those people Ex: Jews during the Babylonian Exile and Roman conflict
What is diaspora?
500
Powerful emperor who controlled a vast empire and elevated culture, art, mathematics, philosophy, religion, and astronomy during his reign.
What is the Gupta Empire & Chandragupta II
500
the sum of one’s good and bad actions during life
What is karma?
500
The escape from the cycle of reincarnation and the goal of spiritual life
What is Nirvana?