Early Civilization Of India Flashcards
What mountain range seperates the subcontinent of India from the rest of Asia?
Himalaya mountain
Where did the first civilization if India develop?
Along the Indus and saravati rivers
These are known as seasonal winds?
Monsoon
This is a system in India of fixed social classes into which people were born into?
Caste
Describe the caste system.
It is a specific rules for behavior where they live and why the marry.
What is Karma?
Determines how a person is reborn. It is the effect of a person’s actions in a previous life.
What is reincarnation?
Rebirth of a new soul in a new body.
What is Dharma?
Doing what is right
What helped Hinduism to spread?
Other God’s traditions were absorbed Cindus
Who was Siddhartha Gautama before he became the Buddha?
A Hindu prince
The word “enlightened one” is?
Buddha
How did the Buddha achieve enlightenment?
He meditated (think deeply or focus one’s mind for a period of time)
What did the Buddha believe following the Eightfold path could lead too?
An end to desires and suffering.
Also called nirvana
What word in Buddhism means a state of perfect wisdom?
Enlightenment
In Jainism, what word means nonviolence to all life?
A himsa
