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35 Cards in this Set
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monsoon
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seasonal wind
was a primary sorce of moisture |
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Vedas
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religious texts
main source of information about the Vedic age |
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varna
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color or class
a system of four classes |
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jati
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birthgroups or castes
the position or class an individual was in all their lives |
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karma
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deeds
things that helped the individual move up on the caste system through reincarnation |
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mokasha
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liberation
what individuals strived for |
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Buddha
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the enlightend one
siddartha gautama who started buddhism |
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Mahayana Buddhism
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Great Vehicle
embraced the popular new features |
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Theravanda Buddhism
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Teachings of the elders
followed most of the original teachings of the founder |
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Hinduism
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a religion originating from india in the vedic age
hundreds of millions of people in south asia today use it and it is a major religion |
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Mauryan Empire
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An empire expanded from the kingdom of Magadha
India's first centralized empire |
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Ashoka
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Chandragupta's grandson
expanded the Gupta empire and spread buddhism |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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a self contained episode set in the midst of the Mahabharata's events
Most renowed of all Indian sacred texts |
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Tamil kingdoms
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Three kingdoms
Three ruling kindoms who ruled the north and central India during its fragmentation |
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Gupta Empire
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another empire that originated from the kingdom of Magadha
the second centralized empire in india |
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theater-state
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a government who creates a relationship between the people and the government
It created cultural differences |
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Malay peoples
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a product of several waves of migration from southern China
became the dominant population in this region |
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Funan
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a center that flourished between the first and sixth centuries C.E.
first major Southeast Asian center |
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Mahabharata
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a vast pageant
a long religious text about two cosins |
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Silk Road
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A trade route that began around 100 B.C.E.
A major long distance trade network that linked Mesopotamia and China |
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Parthians
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a people originally from east of the Caspian Sea
a major forceby 247 B.C.E. |
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Sasanid Empire
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a empire in Iran around 224-600
brought a continuation of the rivalry between Rome and the Parthians |
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stirrup
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a device of leather and metal or wood supporting the instep, that gave riders much more stability
one of the most important inventions that allowed for new military tactics |
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Indian Ocean Maritime System
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a trade network across the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea
One of the major trade networks |
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trans-Saharan caravan routes
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a trade route across the Sahara desert
one of the major trade routes |
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Sahel
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the coast; the southern borderlands of the Sahara
played an important role in this trade |
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sub-Saharan Africa
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the portion of Africa south of the Sahara
place of the most important African network of cultural exchange |
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steppes
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flat semiarid lands
the Sahel region |
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savanna
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tropical grass lands with scattered forests
different terrain traverlers had to go across |
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tropical rain forests
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regions of dense growth and lots of rain
the terain of lower Niger and in the Zaire Basin |
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"great traditions"
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Cultural heritages shared by the educated elites wihtin each region
The dominant traditions |
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"small traditions"
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traditions that rise above the diversity of the local customs and beliefs
the lower traditions |
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Bantu
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"people" a branch of the Niger-Congo family
More than 300 languages spoken south of the equator belonged to them |
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Armenia
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served as a battleground between Iranian states and Mediterranean states
Each imperial power wanted to control this region so close to the frontier where Silk Road traders met their Medditeranean counterparts |
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Ethiopia
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East Afrian highland nation lying east of the Nile River
missionaries were looking for converts here |
