6th grade history Ch 5 Vocab

Question 1

Buddhist belief in a state of complete enlightenment where a person has peace and freedom from desire

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nirvana

Question 2

strict social class a person is born into

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caste

Question 3

scholar who studies languages

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linguist

Question 4

wind that reverses direction with the change of season

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monsoon

Question 5

a religion founded by Siddhartha Guatama; follow the Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths

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Buddhism

Question 6

Ruler of the Mauryan Empire in ancient India; promoted to Buddhism

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Asoka

Question 7

belief that after a person dies, he comes back in another form

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reincarnation

Question 8

a peninsula in southern Asia that extends into the Indian Ocean, separated from other countries by Himalaya Mountains

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Indian subcontinent

Question 9

founder of Buddhism

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Guatama, Siddhartha

Question 10

anyone from outside the groups of the Hindu caste system; bound by strict social restrictions

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outcaste

Question 11

a chief, prince, or ruler in India

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raja

Question 12

collections of sacred hymn texts of Hinduism

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Vedas

Question 13

Indian warrior who conquered a large part of India and began the Mauryan dynasty

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Chandragupta Maurya

Question 14

group of languages spoken by people of Europe and parts of Asia

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Indo-European

Question 15

a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine

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stupa

Question 16

nomads believed to have moved into the Indus Valley around 1500BC; conquered the people of northwest India

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Aryans

Question 17

A city of one of the first civilizations in the Indus valley; sister city to Harappa

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Mohenjo-Daro

Question 18

major Indian religion based on Vedic religious beliefs; belief in Brahman and reincarnation

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Hinduism

Question 19

having received knowledge or understanding

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enlightened

Question 20

Divine being of Hinduism believed to be the cause and material of creation; "the great soul" or "world soul"

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Brahman

Question 21

Hindu belief that a person's deeds, good or bad, determine his state in reincarnation

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karma

Question 22

city chosen by Chandragupta to be the capital of the Mauryan Empire

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Pataliputra

Question 23

religious duties of a Hindu or a Buddhist

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dharma

Question 24

city of one of the first civilizations in the Indus Valley; the sister city of Mohenjo-Daro

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Harappa

Question 25

written language of the Aryans

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Sanskrit

Question 26

a picture or symbol used in early writing to represent a word, a group of words, or an idea

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pictograph

Question 27

people who settled in the Indus Valley and established the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

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Harappan civilization

Question 28

the name Siddhartha Guatama took for himself after he left Hinduism; "enlightened one"

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Buddha

Question 29

belief that everything in the universe is part of a supreme being

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pantheism

Question 30

British archaeologist who discovered and helped excavate Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valles in the 1920s

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Sir John Marshall

6th grade history Ch 5 Vocab

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6th grade history Ch 5 Vocab

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