India and China Vocabulary

4. Social groups that ranked people from high to low in ancient India.
5. Referring to a son or daughter, this is the duty to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the males head of the family.
7. A 4,000 mile long trading route between China and the Roman Empire, famous for China’s most valuable product, silk
8. A division of the central bureaucracy, in which inspectors checked and watched over government officials.
10. Pictures, symbols, or characters, which represent an object.
14. Originating in the Zhou dynasty, it is an ancient philosophical idea that heaven granted the emperor the right to rule.
15. The divine law that requires all people to do their duty depending on their status in society.
18. People who travel to religious places
19. Force generated by a person’s actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life.
20. A philosophy that proposed that human beings were evil by nature.
22. An upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed from one generation to another.
24. Seasonal wind pattern in Southern Asia.
25. Religion that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha ("the awakened one").

1. Chinese government in power.
2. An Indo-European language
3. The belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death
4. Indian literature containing religious chants and stories.
6. The philosophy of Confucius’s ideas.
9. The proper way the emperor was expected to rule over the empire
11. Ultimate reality, the end of self and a reunion with the Great World Soul.
12. A system of ideas based on the teachings of Laozi.
13. A sermon in the Mahabharata, by god Krishna on the eve of a major battle.
16. Highest mountains in the world, home to Mt. Everest along the border of India and Nepal.
17. Characters that combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea.
21. Religion for people who believed in the existence of a single force in the universe or god called Brahman.
23. Method of training designed to achieve oneness with god.