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47 Cards in this Set
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National Language |
Hindi |
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Population |
1.2 Billion |
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Capital City |
New Dehli |
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Major Religions |
1. Hindu 2. Islam |
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Reincarnation |
When, after death, your soul is reborn into another body and lives another life |
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Karma |
Your actions in one life affect your next life |
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Dharma |
Your duty or job in life |
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Atman |
A person's soul or essence |
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Moksha |
When your Atman is pure and you break the cycle of reincarnation |
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Sacred Animal |
Cow |
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Brahman |
Universal Spirit |
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Brahma |
Creator god |
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Vishnu |
Preserver god, helps people fulfill their dharma |
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Shiva |
Destroyer god |
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Ganesh |
Elephant god, removes obstacles from people's lives |
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Order of India Civilizations |
Maurya, Gupta, Mughal |
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Indus River Civilization Location |
Indus River Valley(modern day Pakistan) |
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Indus River Valley Cities |
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro |
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Indus River Valley Achievements |
Planned cities, drainage system, natural A/C, taxes, trade |
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Aryan Way of Life |
Invaders and Barbarians |
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Impact on Modern India Culture |
Veda texts, Caste System, sacredness of cow |
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Major Mauryan Emperor |
Asoka: Leader that converted to Buddhism and was religiously tolerant |
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Gupta Signifigance |
Indian Golden Age |
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Mughal Empire Religion |
Islam |
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Major Leader |
Akbar- Religiously tolerant, married a Hindu woman |
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Shah Jahan |
Built Taj Mahal |
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Taj Mahal |
Tomb for Shah Jahan's favorite wife |
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Caste System |
Hindu social organization based on previous lives and karma, cannot move up born into your caste |
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Brahmins |
Highest Caste |
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Untouchables(Dalits)(God's Children) |
Lowest Caste |
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East India Company |
First British company to establish trade with India, had its own army, took control of most of subcontinent |
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Sepoy Rebellion |
Rumor spread that British were using cow and pig fat to grease cartridges used by Indian soldiers, British were trying to change Indian culture, after rebellion, Britain took full control of India |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
A lawyer who started fighting for Indian rights in South Africa and eventually used his strategies of civil disobedience in India to help gain its independence |
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Mahatma |
"Great Soul," nickname for Gandhi |
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Civil Disobedience |
when you disobey an unjust or unfair law, takes a long time to get anything done, people get hurt, hard to get full support |
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Satyagraha |
Civil disobedience |
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Amritsar Massacre |
a group of people peacefully protesting at Amritsar who were shot at and mostly killed by British officials |
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Salt March |
a march lead by Gandhi to the Indian Ocean to protest the buying of British salt, lead to hundreds of arrests |
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Partition of India |
the separating of the subcontinent of India into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan after independence was gained from the British, Muslims feared that their rights wouldn't be protected under a Hindu ruler |
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Year of Independence |
1947 |
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INC |
Indian National Congress- Hindu group that lead the independence movement, established Indian government |
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Nehru |
INC leader, first Prime Minister of India |
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Kashmir |
region between India and Pakistan that is fought over, country that gets it would control trade of Indus river, currently shared, but both countries have nukes now |
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Indira Gandhi |
Nehru's daughter, second prime minister of India, made controversial moves regarding Sikh minority, assassinated |
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Rajiv Gandhi |
son of Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, assassinated, re-established republic government |
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Type of government |
Parliamentary democracy |
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India's "Claim to Fame" |
largest democracy in the world |
