India

Refers to the duty of each member of Indian society

How a person lives their life

The national religion of India

Social classes within the varna that developed via occupations.

Leader of a Aryan tribe

Song of the Lord that contains stories about warfare

Books outlining the oral tradition of the Aryan and Indian people

24,000 verse poem about King Rama and Queen Sita

Ancient Indian play written by Kalidasa

Belief in the protection of all living things.

Language of the Aryan people (unwritten)

Rebirth of the soul

A longform poem that discusses heroism in war

The set of beliefs that sum up the Buddhist faith

Promoted freedom in the Gupta empire.  Eased taxes and focused on learning and sciences

Religious writings of philosophers from 800 to 400 BC

Introduced the Gupta dynasty. Trained soldiers, spies, and assassins to maintain power.

Who is the founder of Buddhism?

Large stone mounds over the bones of Buddhist holy people.

Indo-Aryan name given to the social structure of Ancient India. 

Overthrew the Magadhan Empire and became the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire

Moral lessons written like fables or fairy tales in ancient India

The "greatest" king of the Mauryan Empire.  Instituted Buddhism after seeing the horrors of war

_____________ grew out of Indian dissatisfaction with Hinduism

Over 100,000 verse holy book of the Hindu people.  One of two.

Group of people who invaded across Indian Kush and across the Indus river in about 1500 BC

A state of freedom from the cycle of rebirth.  A state of extinction.

Symbols devised for 1 to 9 were adopted by traders from the Middle East and were called