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32 Cards in this Set
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what did indo aryans speak |
transcript |
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what was indoaryan primary occupation |
herders |
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What are the primary crops of the indogangetic plain |
wheat and barley |
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How were vedas passed on |
orally |
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what were vedas |
books of religion |
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who were vedic priests who knew proper forms and rules |
brahmins |
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the vedic religion for bade sacrifices |
false |
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did the vedic religion have one chief god |
no they had many and none were chief |
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what did a raja act like |
a military leader of a city |
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did technological advances spread to southern india quick |
no they did not |
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what tells the story of a prince rama and sita |
the ramanya |
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what means the rebirth of the soul |
reincarnation |
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founder of buddhism |
sidharth guatama enlightened one |
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Perfect peace that frees soul |
Nirvana |
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long hero stories |
epics |
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what were physical and mental skills to form peace |
yoga |
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last 18 chapters of mahabarratta |
bahgavad gita |
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what is the bahagavad gita based on |
one self properly status of life |
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good and evil that will happen to someone due to what they did |
kharma |
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upanishads |
complex philisophical explanations of the vedic religion |
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monism |
belief god and humans are one |
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Darius |
persian ruler who connquered part of India |
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Powerful young adventurer |
chandra gupta maurya |
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Maurya did what due to enemies |
slept in a different room every night |
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asoka was a hindu who converted |
to buddhism |
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what did asoka inscribe stone pillars with |
his laws |
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how did gupta extend power |
through intermarriage and conquest |
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guptas continued to support ____________ but favored what |
buddhism, favored hinduism |
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what did the gupta's bring about |
the golden age |
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stupa |
dome like building that ussually holds saced remains |
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what did the indo aryans invent in literature math astronomy and medical things |
they wrote influential fables they figured out pi they estblished 7 planets and predicted eclipses isolate smallpox learned how to set a bone |
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is it bad or good to be on top of the caste |
good |
