World Civ Final, India
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- indian national congress
- A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government.
- atman
- the priciples of life
- brahmaputra river
- a river in india with a long name
- Hindu Kush
- a mountain range extending west of the Himalayas
- shiva
- the Destroyer
- kashmir
- land between Pakistan and India conflict over ownership and independance
- thar desert
- the large desert in the northwestern part of India
- amritsar massacre
- British armies poened fire on unarmed indians
- monsoons
- strong seasonal winds that bring heavy rains to India
- veda
- hindu writings
- east india company
- an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India, run by robert clive
- brahma
- the Creator
- brahmans
- hindu priest
- indira gandhi
- India's first woman leader, son of nehru
- ganges river
- holy river, very polluted
- dharma
- one's duty to brahmin
- vishnu
- the Sustainer
- karma
- (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
- varna
- (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
- satyagraha
- motivation in life
- green revolution
- new techiniques in agriculture
- indus river
- river in Pakistan that creates a fertile plain known as the Indus River Valley
- nehru
- Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule
- sepoys
- Indian soldiers loyal to Britain
- mohandas gandhi
- Great leader from India who used non-violence to protest for independence and peaceful conflict resolution
- mahabarata and ramayana
- the two major books of hindu writing
- upanishads
- part of the veda
- sikhism
- a rligon in india practiced by sikhs
- Khyber pass
- a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan
- aryans
- ancient civilization in india
- moksha
- freedom from the world
- himalayas
- a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet
- indus valley civilization
- ancient city in china with bricks, plumbing and other technologies
- muhammed ali jinnah
- founded pakistan
- civil disobediance
- opposing something without violence