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7th gr Ancient Civ - India (vocab words)

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