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- 2. the effects that good or bad actions have on a person’s Soul
- 4. four of these based Aryan religion
- 7. the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Sudra
- 9. someone who works to spread religious beliefs
- 10. another word for the Enlightened One
- 11. the division of Indian society into groups based on rank, wealth, or Occupation
- 12. the most important language of ancient India
- 13. the Buddha believed that this path was a middle way between human desires and denying oneself any pleasure
- 15. the main religion of India
- 16. a large landmass that is smaller than a continent, such as India
- 18. going without food for a period of Time
- 19. a monotheistic religion that developed in India in the 1400s
- 20. an Indian religion based on the teachings of Mahavira that teaches all life is sacred
- 22. a state of perfect peace
- 24. one of the two major cities of the Harappan civilization
- 25. one of the most powerful kings in India
- 27. Aryan religion
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- 1. the four guiding principles at the heart of the Buddha’s teachings
- 3. deep, continued thought that focuses the mind on spiritual ideas
- 5. a Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are born and reborn many times, each time into a new body
- 6. thoughts about the Vedas
- 8. an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea
- 9. a seasonal wind pattern that causes wet and dry seasons
- 12. questioned life and religious matters
- 14. a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau
- 17. a religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that developed in India in the 500s BC
- 21. originally from the area around the Caspian Sea in Central Asia and became the dominant group in India
- 23. the avoidance of violent actions
- 26. the civilization that grew up in the Indus River Valley
- 28. an 800-kilometer-long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan