7th gr Ancient Civ - India (vocab words) | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What is citadel?

.a large fortress mainly used to protect towns or castles from attacks or disaster

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What is a Caste System?

.The caste that they belong to is based on their wealth, occupation, and family background

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Vaishya is a part of the Caste System. What groups of people were included in this group??

.third Varna

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What is a Veda?

.The ancient sacred texts of Hinduism

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What does reincarnation mean?

. you believe that after death a person's soul is reborn in another body

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Explain Brahman

.the source of all existence and is present in every thing and every place

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Explain Vishnu?

.the preserver and protector of the universe

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Explain Buddha.

.enlightened one

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What is an ascetic in Hinduism

.a person who practises great self-denial and austerities and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures, esp for religious reasons.

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What is the Great Bath?

.earliest public water tank of the ancient world

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What is Brahmin?

.the caste from which Hindu priests are drawn, and are responsible for teaching and maintaining sacred knowledge

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Explain Sudra

.unskilled workers

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Explain Samsara

.the name for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

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What is Moksha?

.the ultimate goal within Hinduism, to leave this cycle of rebirth (samsara) and become one with the god Brahma.

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What is Brahma?

.the creator god of the Hindu sacred triad

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Explain Trimurti

. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver and Shiva is the destroyer.

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