Flashcards
Ch.3 India, Hinduism, & Buddhism
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1Himalaya Mtns.the highest mountains in the world.
- 2MonsoonA seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia.
- 3HarappaTwo of the ruins about 400 miles apart, were sites of the cities.
- 4AryansA group known as the Aryans, who moved south across the Hindu Kush mountain range into the plains of northern India.
- 5SanspritAn Indo-European language.
- 6VarnasThe Aryans believed that society was divided into four varnas, or social group that ranked people from high to low.
- 7Caste SystemOver the centuries, a rigid social structure evolved that drew on Aryan ideas the caste system.
- 8Hinduismhad its origins in the religious beliefs of the Aryan peoples who settled in India.
- 9yogaHindus developed the practice of yoga, a method of training designed to lead such a union.
- 10reincarnationhad appeared in Hinduism.
- 11KarmaImportant in the process is the idea of karma, the force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life.
- 12DharmaThe concept of karma is ruled by the dharma, or the divine law.
- 13BuddhismIn the sixth century B.C., a new doctrine, called Buddhism, appeared in northern India and soon became a rival of Hinduism
- 14Siddhartha GautamaThe founder of Buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, or "Enlighted One
- 15NirvanaAchieving wisdom is a key step to achieving nirvana, or ultimate reality the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul
- 16AsokaThe Mauryan Empire flourished during the reign the reign of Asoka, the grandson of Candragupta Maurya.
- 174 noble truthscomprise the essence of Buddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained.
- 18—Eight fold path- is the principle of teachings.
