vocabulary

Question 1

karma

Answer 1

how a person will determine what the next person will take in the next life/good actions means a good soul with be reborn to a higher castle, bad actions means a lower castle.

Question 2

reincarnation

Answer 2

rebirth of the soul continues until a person reached spiritual perfection.

Question 3

polygyny

Answer 3

it means that men can have more than one wife

Question 4

suttee

Answer 4

when their husbands died the women would throw themselves on their burning husbands dead body

Question 5

monsoons

Answer 5

large winds and flooding with tons and lots of rain

Question 6

inoculation

Answer 6

the practice of infecting a person with a mild form of the disease so they will not become ill from the more serious form.

Question 7

caste system

Answer 7

people were born into a caste, they could not move into a different caste, laws disclaimed what a caste could and could not do.