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- rig veda
- a collection of 1028 hyms, paryers and poems that show an acurate pitcher of aryan life
- dasas
- aryan word for slave
- shiva
- hindu destroyer God
- vishnu
- hindu protector god
- krishna
- semi-divine hero of the Mahabharata
- varna
- skin color that the aryans used to place people in society
- untouchables
- butchers, gravediggers or trashman. They were considered unclean people
- upanishads
- wriiten dialogues between teacher and student
- moksha
- state of perfect understanding of all things in hinduism
- Mahavira
- the founder of jainism
- kapolvastu
- siddhartha gauotama's birth place. In the foothills of the himalayas in Nepal
- four noble truths
- the essense of true enlightment
- buddha
- the enlightened one
- dalai lama
- the spiritual leader of the buditist religion
- dharma
- buddhist doctrine or law
- 5 relationships of confucis
- social order in accient china that helped established peoples place in society
- duke of lu
- chinese noble who made confucious minster of justice
- laozi
- chineese philosopher who believd that only nature guides all things. founder of daoism
- dao de ching
- the way of vitue, it serves as a handbook for daoists
- hanfiezi and ci si
- considered the founders of legalism
- great wall of china
- built during the qin dynasty shi huang-de; to keep the northern Mangols from raiding and killing the chinese
- indo-europeans
- were a group of semomactic people who came from the steppes
- steppes
- dry grasslands, that streched north of the caucausus
- migrants
- movement of people from one region to another
- hittites
- group of indo-europeans speakers who occupied anatolia
- anatonia
- asia minor, it is a huge peninsula in modern-day turkey
- aryans
- indo-european who crossed over the northwest mountain passes into the induys river valley of india
- vedas
- are four collections of prayers, magical spells and instructions for performing rituals
- brahmins
- priests
- castes
- social system
- mahabharata
- as massive poem that reflects the stugglesthat took place in india as the aryans moved south
- reincarnation
- an idividual soul or spirt is born again and again until moksha is achieved
- karma
- good or bad deeds
- jainism
- an indian religion based on the teachings of mahavira that teaches all life is sacred
- enlightment
- wisdom
- nirvanna
- the buddha word for release from selfishness and pain
- siddhartha gauotama
- founder of buddism
- confucius
- chinas most influential scholar
- filial piety
- respect for their parents and elders
- daoism
- the philosophy of laozi
- i ching
- a Chinese book of oracles, consulted to answer ethical and practical problems
- yin and yang
- two powers that together represented the natural rhythms of life
- qin dynasty
- 13 year old, the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
- SHI HUANGDI
- founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor
- legalism
- Strict, literal adherence to the law or to a particular code, as of religion or morality.
- autocracy
- a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
- burocracity
- when a trained civil service runs the country