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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Vedic/Epic Age |
1500-1000 B.C.E.
A formative period between the destruction of the Indus River Valley and the revival. |
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Rig Veda |
The first epic poems with 1028 hymns dedicated to the Aryan gods.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Mahabharata |
India's greatest epic poem between 1000 and 600 B.C.E.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Upinshads |
Epic poems with a more mystical religious flavor.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Caste System |
The social structure in India.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Untouchables |
Lowest level of the Caste System.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Ramayana |
Written 1000 to 600 B.C.E. dealing with real and mystical battles; Reflects on agriculture and better political units.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Sanskrit |
The first literary language of Indian and Aryan culture.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Chandragupta |
A young soldier in 322 B.C.E. who seized power along the Ganges River; First leader of the Mauryan Dynasty.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Mauryan Dynasty |
Indian Rulers 322- 298 B.C.E.; First to unify the subcontinent and develop a bureaucracy in India.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Ashoka |
Chandragupta's grandson who ruled 269 to 232 B.C.E. and recovered the Southern tip.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Dharma |
The Law of Moral Consequences.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Gupta Dynasty |
Formed after the collapse of the Kushan state in 220 C.E.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Regionalism |
Dividing up land in to separate political divisions.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Hinduism |
A religion founded in India during the Vedic and Epic ages that has no founder and no holy figure. Based on nature.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Artha |
Political and economic goals.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Karma |
Worldly pleasures.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Brahma |
The basic holy essence that formed part of everything in the world.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Bhagavad Gita |
A classic sacred hymn about warriors sent to battle his own relatives.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Reincarnation |
The belief that souls do not die when the body does, but passes on to other beings.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Buddha |
an Indian prince born in 563 B.C.E. who came to question the fairness of earthly life and created Buddhism.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Nirvana |
Rewards in the afterlife when coming into full union with the divine essence.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Kama-sutra |
Manuel of the Laws of Love in the fourth century C.E.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Panchatantra |
Poems of military adventure written in the Gupta period.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Stupas |
Spherical shrines to Buddha.
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Classical Civilizations: India
Vocabulary: Patriarchy |
A family structure where the eldest man is in full authority.
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