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What is citadel?
.a large fortress mainly used to protect towns or castles from attacks or disaster
What is a Caste System?
.The caste that they belong to is based on their wealth, occupation, and family background
Vaishya is a part of the Caste System. What groups of people were included in this group??
.third Varna
What is a Veda?
.The ancient sacred texts of Hinduism
What does reincarnation mean?
. you believe that after death a person's soul is reborn in another body
Explain Brahman
.the source of all existence and is present in every thing and every place
Explain Vishnu?
.the preserver and protector of the universe
Explain Buddha.
.enlightened one
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.
What is the Great Bath?
.earliest public water tank of the ancient world
What is Brahmin?
.the caste from which Hindu priests are drawn, and are responsible for teaching and maintaining sacred knowledge
Explain Sudra
.unskilled workers
Explain Samsara
.the name for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
What is Moksha?
.the ultimate goal within Hinduism, to leave this cycle of rebirth (samsara) and become one with the god Brahma.
What is Brahma?
.the creator god of the Hindu sacred triad
Explain Trimurti
. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver and Shiva is the destroyer.
What is Enlightenment?
.the complete freedom from suffering
What are the Four Noble Truths?
.the Truth of Suffering, the Truth of the Cause of Suffering, the Truth of the End of Suffering, and the Truth of the Path that Leads to the End of Suffering.
Explain Mohenjo-Daro/Harappa
.one of two urban centers of the Harappans, farmers on the Indus River, who founded the Indus Valley Civilization.
What is Kshatriyas?
. the warriors
Who are the Untouchables?
.whose hereditary duty—is to labor in the fields of others or to do other work that Hindu society considers filthy
What is Karma?
.Karma means 'action', and refers to the Hindu law of cause and effect.
What is Dharma?
.duty, religion, virtue and morality
What is Shiva?
.one of the three main gods in Hinduism
The Buddha
.a man of great wisdom and compassion.
What is Siddartha Gautama
.The Buddha
What is The Middle Way?
.a teaching about a way of looking at things in Buddhism