india vocab

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  1. 3. Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism
  2. 6. The religious and moral duties of each person (In Hinduism)
  3. 9. Liberation from the cycle of rebirth
  4. 10. Focusing the mind on spiritual things
  5. 13. A wind in the Indian Ocean and Southern Asia that brings heavy rains in the summer.
  6. 14. The effects that good or bad actions have on a person’s soul
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  1. 1. The process through which a person goes from one life to the next. A belief that after a person dies, he or she is reborn
  2. 2. The oldest and most authoritative Hindu sacred texts, composed in Sanskrit
  3. 4. Once the largest city of the Indus Valley that flourished between 2500 and 1700 B.C.
  4. 5. The main religion in India and one of the world’s oldest religions
  5. 7. Indian emperor who changed the official religion of India to Buddhism
  6. 8. In Hindu, a lifelong social group into which one is born
  7. 11. People from central Asia who invaded and conquered northern India
  8. 12. Language of ancient India and Hinduism