Topic 4: India

This counting system based on units of ten is considered one of the greatest advances

Groupings based on one's skill

Some people of the Gupta empire had this status with political rights and obligations

Farmers stored their surplus crops in this special building

A fortified area

Sacred hymns

A system of offices and officials that handle the business of government

Gupta artisans made progress in this science to create useful objects.

This sect focuses on the compassion of the Buddha

A person's duty to do what is right

A long term plan for achieving a goal

The second principle of Asoka's rule of moral law, a willingness to respect different beliefs

A symbol used to represent a number

This is a occupation based caste meaning "birth group

A short story with a moral at the end.

Buddhist commemorative burial mounds

The goal of a person who follows the Eightfold Path is to reach this

Chandragupta divided his empire into regions, which were divided into these with own government

Hinduism teaches that when people die, most will undergo this

What determines how a person is reborn

The supreme spiritual force

The belief that one should not hurt any living thing