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4. Classical India Test

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Himalayas
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dharma
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stupas
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Buddha
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Ashoka
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Vishnu
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Alexander the Great
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Indra
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gurus
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Varnas
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successor of Philip II; successfully conquered the Persian empire prior to his death in 323 B.C.E.; attempted to combine Greek and Persian cultures.
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originally referred to as brahmans, who served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the Guptas.
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mountain region marking the northern border of the Indian subcontinent.Site of the Aryan settlements that formed small kingdoms or warrior republics
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stone shrines built to house relics of the Buddha; preserved Buddhist architectural forms.
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the caste position and career determined by a person’s birth; Hindu culture required that one accept one’s social position and perform their occupation to the best of one’s ability in order to have a better situation in the next life.
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the brahman, later Hindu, god of sacrifice; widely worshipped.
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creator of a major Indian and Asian religion; born in the 6th century B.C.E.; taught that enlightenment could be achieved only by abandoning desires for earthly things, son of local ruler in Himalayas
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(r. 273-232 B.C.E) grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; extended conquests of the dynasty; converted to Buddhism and sponsored its spread throughout his empire.
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chief deity of the Aryans; depicted as a colossal, hard-drinking warrior.
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clusters of caste groups in Aryan society; four social castes—brahmans (priests), warriors,merchants, and peasants; beneath four Aryan castes was group of socially untouchable Dasas.
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Hindu god of destruction and reproduction; worshipped as the personification of cosmic forces of change.
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the successive rebirth of the soul according to merits earned in previous lives.
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Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China.
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the classical and sacred Indian language.
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the Buddhist state of enlightenment; a state of tranquility.
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dynasty that succeeded the Kushans in the 3rd century C.E., which included all but southern Indian regions; less centralized than Mauryan Empire.
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seasonal winds crossing Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia; during summer bring rains.
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founder of the Mauryan dynasty, the first empire in the Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization. r.322-298 BCE
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low social caste in Hindu culture; performed tasks that were considered polluting - street sweeping, removal of human waste, and tanning
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dynasty established in Indian subcontinent in 4th century B.C.E. following the invasion of Alexander the Great.

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