World History Chapter 3

This is the name of the sacred literature of the Aryan people

This King of Israel badly strained the kingdom's finances, requiring high taxes

Process where the individual soul is born again and again until moksha is achieved..

For Buddhists, this involves a perfect state of understanding and an end to reincarnations.

Hinduism and Buddhism differ significantly in their beliefs about...

Hindus believe that karma is the good and bad deeds that a person engages in over lifetimes.

Monotheism describes the Hebrew's belief-unusual for the time-that their God was...

Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path

This became the seat of the southern Kingdom of Israel.

The Ten Commandments became the basis for

This names someone so lowly that he/she exists outside the caste system.

This group of people settled in what is now India

The Torah says, he led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments.

They carry the doctrine of nonviolence to its logical conclusion, sweeping ants off their path.

This is a member of the highest Indian social class and a Hindu priest

This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama.

The state of release from selfishness and pain that results from following the 8th-fold path is

This poem with 106,000 verses is the longest poem ever composed

Religion in which there is a belief that everything in the universe has a soull

The "father" of the Jewish people

The Indian epic poem the Mahabarata reflects the struggles...

This is money paid by a weaker power to a stronger power--"peace money."