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| Seasonal winds named for the direction in which they blow or the season which it occurs |
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| Ancient religion characterized by belief that spirits inhabited all things. |
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| Important priests in the Vedic religion. |
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| Prince who ruled an Aryan city-state. |
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| Long poems describing heroes and great events. |
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| Social organization of India composed of four classes. |
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| Hindu belief that God and human beings are one. |
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| Hindu belief in rebirth of the soul. The belief that a soul is reborn means that it passes from a deceased person to another being. |
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| Hindu belief in fufillment of moral duty so that the soul can progress toward deliverance from punishment in the next life. |
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| Hindu belief that the present condition of a person's life reflects what a person did during a previous life. |
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| Hindu religious practice of physical and mental discipline that harmonizes the body with the soul. |
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| Buddhist belief of attaining perfect peace by freeing the soul from the endess cycle of reincarnation. |
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| Marriage to more than one person. |
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| Ritual suicide by Indian widows. |
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| Hemispherical or dome-shaped shrine that held objects associated with the Buddha. |
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| Complex philosophical explanation of the Vedic religion. |
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| Tells the story of a great civil war in a kingdom near the present city of Delhi. |
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| The last 18 chapters of the Mahabharata that stresses the idea that conducting oneself properly marks the highest fufillment in life. |
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| according to Hinduism, the illusory world of the senses |
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| tells the story of two royal heroic figures Rama and his wife, Sita. |
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| A human incarnation of the god Vishnu who explains that love and devotion to Vishnu can lead to salvation in the afterlife. |
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| another incarnation of the god Vishnu who was exiled and saved his wife from a demon; an ideal to India |
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| Rama's wife who was kidnapped by a demon; an ideal to India. |
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| a representating of Brahma who was god the preserver. |
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| A basic divine essence that fills everything in the world who was god the creator |
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| A representation of Brahma who was god the destroyer |
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| Siddhartha Guatama, or Buddha, who was born 563 B.C. and created Buddhism. |
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| controlled the Pataliputra on the ganges River conquered the area near the Hindu Kush |
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| Chandragupta Maurya's grandson who expanded the Mauryan Empire in 301 B.C. considered India's best ruler and was a devout Buddhist. |
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| took over the Mauryan empire in A.D. 320; A.D. 400 the empire reached the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. |
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| the great literature of the Indo-Aryan religion |
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| The Indo-Europeans who migrated into northwestern India |
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| the god of cosmic order and personification of the sky in the Vedic religion |
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| the god of storm and war in the Vedic religion. |
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| Indian doctor who practiced strict cleanliness and sterilized wounds. |
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| Indian mathematician who computed the value of pi (∏). |
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| Mountain range that streches over the northwestern part of India |
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| Broad plain that streches from the Indus River to the Ganges River. |
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| The river that is south of the Kyber Pass and north of the Thar Desert. Was the river where Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were settled. |
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| Located in the belly of India, this plateau lays south of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. |
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| Western and Eastern Ghats |
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| two low mountain ranges that identify the western and eastern sides of the Deccan. |
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| Ancient Indian city of the Indus Valley civilization that prospered on the Indus River. Its "twin city" was Harappa. |
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| Ancient Indian city of the Indus Valley civilization that prospered on the Indus River. Its "twin city" was Mohenjo-Daro. |
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| A passage in the Hindu Kush Mountains that allowed invaders to come into India. |
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| Inland sea between Europe and Asia; connected to the Aegean Sea and, thence, the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| Inland sea located in Asia west of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. |
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| forest covered mountains south of the Indo-Gangetic Plain which separated the Indo-Aryans from northern India. |
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| country in East Asia which is the world's most populous country. |
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| prosperous East Asian country consisting of four large "home" islands and more than 3,000 smaller islands in the western Pacific Ocean. |
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| peninsula on east coast of Asia that was controlled by China |
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| River that runs through the Himalayas and most of western India that pours into the Bay of Bengal. |
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| Mountain range in north-eastern India that is north of the Indus River and in it runs the Kyber Pass. |
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| city in central India that holds many ancient mural paintings in its caves. |
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