Unit 6: Ancient India

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  1. 2. Path The middle part of Four Noble Truths needed to gain union with the Great World Soul
  2. 6. A religious doctrine introduced in Northern India by Siddhartha Guatama, or Buddha, in the 6th Century BCE
  3. 8. A Hindu method of training leading to oneness with Brahman
  4. 9. Based partly on skin color, its strict categories are determined also by economic potential, and position in society
  5. 11. The earliest known Indian literature containing religious chants and generational stories and were later written in Sanskrit
  6. 12. buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
  7. 14. The rebirth of one's soul in a different from after their death
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  1. 1. The major religious system in India whose religious belief come from the Aryans after 1500 B.C.E.
  2. 3. A person who travels to a shrine or another place
  3. 4. The ideal social structure of four groups given by the Aryans in ancient India to a group of people
  4. 5. Hinduism's belief that the force generated by a person's actions that determines how a person will be reborn in the next life
  5. 6. The religion and writings of the ancient Indo European speaking peoples who entered India about 1500 BCE from the region of Persia or present day Iran.
  6. 7. In Hinduism, Divine Law rules karma, it requires all people to do their duty based in societal status
  7. 10. First written language of the Aryans and the basis for modern Hindu languages
  8. 13. Buddhism's ultimate reality, the end of the self and reunion with the Great World Soul