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11 Cards in this Set
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subcontinent - a large landmass that is smaller than a continent |
monsoons - seasonal wind pattens that cause wet and dry seasons |
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Sanskrit - the most important language in India |
caste system - divided Indian society into groups based on a person's birth, wealth, or occupation |
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Hinduism - The largest religion in India today |
reincarnation - the process of rebirth |
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Karma - the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul |
Jainism - based on the teaching of a man named Mahavira, who believed to be born around 599 BC. |
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nonviolence - the avoidance of violent actions |
Sikhism - the teaching of the Guru Nanak, who lived in the AD 1400s. |
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Buddhism - a religion based on the teaching of the Budda |
nirvana - a state of perfect peace |
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missionaries - people who work to spread their religious beliefs |
Candragupta Maurys - a man in the 320s BC who seized control of the entire northern part of India. |
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Asoka - king around 270 BC who was a great leader and actually the grandson of Candraupta. He almost ruled almost all of India, he made his empire stronger and richer. |
Candra Gupta II - a man who took the tron in India, the gupt society reached its peek at this rule. Under his rule the empire grew stretching all the way to northern India. |
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metallurgy - the science of working with metals |
alloys - mixtures of 2 or more metals |
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Hindu-Arabic numerals - the very numbers we use today |
inoculation - injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease. |
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astronomy - the study of stars and planets |
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