Chapters 6 and 7 Flashcards

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Monsoon

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Seasonal Winds which benefited India

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Vedas

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Religious Texts; main sources of information about the Vedic Age`

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Varna

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"Color"- came to indicate class 
Priests and scholars
Warriors and officials
Merchant, Artisans, Landowners
Peasants and Laborers
Untouchables
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Karma

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Deeds of the atman in its previous incarnations

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5
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Moksha

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“liberation”- release from the cycle of reincarnations

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6
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Buddha

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Siddartha Gautama

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7
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Mahayana Buddhis

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“Great Vehicle” embraced new features, newest buddhism

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Therevada Budhism

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Flollowed most of the original teachings…OLD

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Hinduism

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Religion of hundreds of millions of people in South Asia

CASTE SYSTEM

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Mauryan Empire

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India’s first centralized empire

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Ashoka

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Chandragupta’s grandson, outstanding figure

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Mahabharata

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Indian Epic, eightfold of the ole Illiad et Odyssey

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Bhagavad-Gita

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Self-contained episode of ja boi Arjuna

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Tamil Kingdoms

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repping Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras in Southern India

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Gupta Empire

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Tagalong, copied Mauryan Empire and grew out of kingdom of Maghada

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16
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Theater state

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collects luxury goods and profits from trade and redistributes them to its dependents through gifts and such, GUPTA

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Malay Peoples

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became dominant population in SE Asia

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Fuman

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First Major SE Asian Center

19
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Silk Road

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popular trade route reppin in from mesopotamia to china 24/7

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Parthians

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Poeple originally from east of the Caspian Sea, founders of the Silk Road

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Sasanid Empire

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Located on eastern part of Silk Road, in Iran

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Stirrup

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most impotant invention in China, gave riders far greater stability in the stable

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Indian Ocean Maritime System

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Trade Network across Indian ocean and South China Sea

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trans-African Caravan Routes

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signifiant Stream across Sahara

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Sahel
farming people of "the coast," played important role in trade
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Sub-Saharan Africa
portion of Africa south of the Sahara with a few external contacts
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Steppes
spiarid steppes of the sahel region
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savanna
covered by long grasses and scattered woods
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tropical rain forest
on lower Niger and in the Zaire Basin
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"Great Traditions"
typically include a written language, common legal and belief systems, ethical codes and other intellectual attitudes
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"Small Traditions"
local customs and beliefs, less dominant than "Great Traditions"
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Bantu
word meaning "people" in most languages, more than three hunna languages spoken
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Armenia
Served recurrently as battleground between Iraninan states to s and e and Mediterranean states to the west
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Ethiopia
Constantinople sent missionaries along red sea to seek converts here