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15 Cards in this Set
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The earliest written source brought in during the Aryan invasion of the India sub continent
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The Vedas
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the cultural center of the pre-aryan civilization
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harappa
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the river along whixh the pre-aryan culture is built
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indus
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the god inherited from the pre-aryan culture
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shiva
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the aryan god who often takes human incarnations such as krisna
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vishnu
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the goddess who meditates and transforms her dull, lusterless skin into radiant gold
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parvati
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the god who is said by the aryan culture to have created the world and the universe
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brahma
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the name of the dynasty brought to its height by asoka
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maurya
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the center of asoka's empire
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magadha
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the name of the dynasty said to be the golden age of india
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gupta
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the eastern portion of pakistan that became independant in 1971
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bangladesh
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the name of gandhi's strategy of non-violent protest
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satyagraha
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the designer of the miracle seeds which made the green revoution possible. he recieved the nobel peace prize in 1971
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norman bourlaug
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one portion of the mahabharata said to contain the essence of hindu philosophy
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bhagavadgita
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the first prime minister of india, who began the SSD project in 1957
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Nehru
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