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- Atman
- soul
- Brahman Nerguna
- universal everything
- Samsara
- reincarnation
- Karma
- What i do comes back to me
- Dharma
- Duty (what your role is on earth
- Ahimsa
- nonviolence
- Mahavira
- leader of Jainism
- Siddhortha Gautama
- leader of buddhism
- 4 noble truths
- 1. life is painful, 2. hurts cuz of desire 3. end pain by ending desire 4. path to overcome desire
- Buddha died from?
- food poisioning, mushroom
- nirvana
- place you can achieve during life
- 2 Types of Buddhist worship
- Theravada, Mahayana
- Buddhist holy book
- Tripitaka
- Chalcolithic
- Having to do with the bronze age, copper
- Megalithic stone
- stone of great size, especially in ancient construction or in monuments left by primitive people. Found in caves
- Geography of India
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1. northern mountainous
2. indus, ganges plain
3. deccan plateau
4. coastal rim - India's earliest settlements
- Indus river valley
- 1st civilization in India
- Harrappan or Indus river valley
- monsoon
- seasonal wind
- summer monsoon is important because?
- brings rain
- Indigenous
- native
- dravidian
- harappan
- decline/fall economically of harappan civilization
- deforestation, flooding, earthquakes
- harappan village based on what society
- agriculture
- who had a well organized government?
- harappan
- who had a standardized weights & measures system?
- Harappan
- what did harappan use cotton for?
- textiles
- who did harappans trade with?
- mesopatamia
- harappan script?
- not yet decoded
- harappan weapons?
- few
- harappan draining systems?
- elaborate
- who was noble?
- Aryans
- Who had war alot?
- Aryans
- who invaded harappan through the hindu kush?
- Aryans
- who established their rule in the ganges river plain?
- Aryans
- who had a warrior society?
- Aryans
- who had social classes that were eventually rigid?
- Aryans
- who had a caste system?
- Aryans
- during the vedic age, change from nomads to farmers?
- Aryans
- vedas
- holy books
- vedas used by?
- aryans
- Aryan epics?
- mahabharata & upanishads
- what epic? attempt to understand the bigger questions of life?
- upanishads
- priests added to the epics why?
- to teach good behavior
- aryan religion?
- Indra
- 1st ruler to ignite a large group of India?
- chadragupta maurya
- caplital of mauryan
- pataliputra?
- who was paranoid of death?
- chadragupta maurya
- his early career was violent, converts to buddhism & begins to show his compassion
- Asoka
- who sponsored missionary activity?
- Asoka
- what were the accomplishments of the mauryan dynasty?
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1. unity
2. encourages learning
3. trade grows - 2500-1500BC
- Harappan culture
- 1500BC
- Aryan invasion
- 1500-500BC
- Vedic Age
- 563-463BC
- Gautama Buddha
- 324-535AD
- Mauryan, Gupta