Vocab Lesson 1
What is the name given by Aryans in ancient India to a group of people in what was believed to be an ideal social structure of four groups?
What is Varnas?
What is the force generated by an individual's actions that determines how a person will be reborn in the next life, in Hinduism?
What is Karma?
What is the name of the man who became enlightened and is now called Buddha?
Who was Siddhartha Gautama
What was the name of Ashoka's oldest step brother who was always trying to kill him?
Who was Susima?
What was the largest religion in India?
What is Hinduism?
What is the term for a set of rigid categories in ancient India that determined a person's occupation and economic potential as well and their position in society based partly on skin color.
What is the Caste System
what is the divine law that rules Karma in hinduism called which requires all people to do their duty based on their status in society?
what is Dharma?
What Mauryan king killed his step brothers to become king and united India by devastating warfare and bloodshed, then had a conversion to Buddhism and is now known as one of the greatest kings of India?
Who is Ashoka?
What was the name if the child prince of Kalinga?
Who was Arya?
What is the first of the 4 noble truths that the Buddha came up with?
What is, "Ordinary life is full of suffering?"
What was the major Indian religious system, which had it's origins in the religious beliefs of the Aryans who settled in India after 1500 B.C.?
What is Hinduism?
What is a religious doctrine introduced in northern India in the 6th century B.C by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as "The Enlightened One" called?
What is Buddhism?
Who was the founder of the Mauryan Empire?
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
what was the name of the Buddhist woman who saved Ashoka's life but had her wedding ruined because she killed a man on the same day as her wedding?
Who was Devi?
what is the second of the four noble truths that Buddha came up with?
What is "Suffering is cused by our desire to satisfy ourselves?"
What is the method of training developed by the Hindus that is supposed to lead to oneness with Brahman called?
What is Yoga?
What is the term for the ultimate reality, the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul?
What is Nirvana?
Which king reigned from 380-415 B.C. and helped create the Golden age of Indian culture during the Gupta Empire?
Who was Candra Gupta II?
Who was the General of Kalinga who tried to protect the prince and princess after thier parents were murdered?
Who was Bheema?
"The way to end desire is to follow the Middle Path" is which of the 4 noble truths?
what is the 4th noble truth?
What is the term for the rebirth of an individual's soul in a different form after death?
what is reincarnation?
What is the name of the earliest known Indian Literature which contains religious stories and chants that were originally passed down orally and later recorded in Sanskrit?
What are Vedas?
Who was the most famous mathematician of the Gupta Empire who was the first to use algebra?
Who was Aryabhata?
What was the name of the king, and father of Ashoka who died in the film?
Who was Bindusara?
Finish the phrase "The way to end suffering is to end desire for selfish goals and to see others as ________________ ___ ____________."
What is "Extensions of ourselves."