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52 Cards in this Set
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A large land mass that is smaller than a continent and is separated from a continent by its physical features
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Sub Continent
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Early Civilization In India developed along what river
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Indus River
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Where did civilization begin in India?
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Indus River Valley
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How is India separated from the rest of Asia?
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North Himalaya Mountains
South-Indian Ocean East- Bay of Bengal W- Arabian Sea and Hindu Kush Mountains |
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The Highest Mountains in the world
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Himalaya
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1st Civilization in India
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Harappan included the cities of Harrapa and Mohenjo Daro
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In Indian Civilization -Farmers, craftspeople and traders
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Vaisyas
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Leaders of Small communities in Arayan society
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Raja
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Priest in India
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Brahmins
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Rulers and Warriors in Indian Society
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Kshatriyas
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Labors and non Aryans
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Sudras
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Non members of any Caste. People in a Caste are forbidden contact with them
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Untouchables
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Founder of the Mauryan Empire
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Chandragupta Mayura
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He became Buddhist monk and
rejected war, Improve lives of poor built roads with shade trees and rest houses, dug wells, sent missionaries to other lands, built pillars beside roads with edicts of Buddhism carved into them, got rid of caste system |
Asoka
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book of
stories with moral lessons |
Panchatantra
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domed roofs
meant to house sacred items |
Stupas
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small doses of virus
to build up your immunity |
inoculation
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Study of planets and
stars, Knew the sun was a star and planets evolved around it, Predicted eclipses of moon and sun |
astronomy achievements
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In Hinduism "the destroyer"
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Siva
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In Hinduism "The Creator"
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Brahma
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In Hinduism "the preserver"
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Vishnu
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Sanskrit
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the most important
language of ancient India |
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monsoon
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a seasonal wind pattern
that causes wet and dry seasons |
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subcontinent
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a large landmass that is
smaller than a continent, such as India |
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caste
system |
the division of Indian
society into groups based on rank, wealth, or occupation |
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Hinduism
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the main religion of
India; it teaches that everything is part of a universal spirit called Brahman |
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reincarnation
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a Hindu and Buddhist
belief that souls are born and reborn many times, each time into a new body |
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karma
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in Buddhism and
Hinduism, the effects that good or bad actions have on a person’s soul |
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Jainism
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an Indian religion based
on the teachings of Mahavira that teaches all life is sacred |
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nonviolence
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the avoidance of violent
actions |
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fasting
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going without food for a
period of time |
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meditation
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deep breathing and
thought that focuses the mind on spiritual ideas |
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The Buddah
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the founder of
Buddhism; also known as the “Enlightened One |
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Buddhism
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a religion based on the
teachings of the Buddha that developed in India in the 500s BC |
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Nirvana
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in Buddhism, a state of
perfect peace |
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missionary
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someone who works to
spread religious beliefs |
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Candragupta
Maurya |
a military leader who
seized control of India and founded the Mauryan Empire in the 320s BC |
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Asoka
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a Mauryan emperor who
converted to Buddhism after extending Mauryan rule over most of India |
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Candra
Gupta II |
an Indian emperor who
took the throne in AD 375; during his rule, Gupta society reached its high point |
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metallurgy
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the science of working
with metals |
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alloy
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a mixture of two or
more metals |
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Hindu-Arabic
numerals |
the number system we
use today; it was created by Indian scholars during the Gupta dynasty |
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inoculation
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injecting a person with a
small dose of a virus to help build up defenses to a disease |
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astronomy
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the study of stars and
planets |
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The Aryan system of government was different than the Harappan system of government in that the Aryan system was based on
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family connections
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In Aryan society the most important thing in regards to the Caste system was
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Obeying Caste Rules
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What happen to Hinduism after the Gupta's took control
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It became more popular
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Contains the passge called the Bhagavad Gita
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Mahubbharta
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Aryans took farmland away from India's native people by using what?
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horses
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Aryan priest used what to bring order to society
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belief in the Vedas and reincarnation
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The Indus river valley was settled because?
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It offered the best agricultural conditions
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It is believed that the Harappan people disappeared because they were
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victims of floods or earthquakes
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