| A | B |
|---|
| Vedas | Aryan collection of prayers and hymns |
| Brahmin | Aryan priests |
| Kshatriyas | Aryan warriors |
| Vaisyas | Aryan herders, farmers, merchants |
| Sudra | Aryan slaves |
| Polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| Indra | Aryan god of war |
| Brahman | Aryan's moved toward belief in a single God |
| mysticism | sought spiritual truth,yoga, meditation |
| Harappa and Mohenjo | two main cities in the Indus River civilization |
| Aryan religion | believed in natural gods;money snake |
| Mahabharata | Aryan Epic |
| caste | social class system to ensure social purity |
| sati | practice of women throwing themselves on her husbands funeral pyre |
| joint family | household where relations all live together |
| patriarchal | system where the eldest man in the head of the household |
| Untouchables | people forced to perform impure jobs |
| Daoism | Chinese belief that the best government is one that governs the least |
| Legalism | Chinese belief that people need strict laws and harsh punishments |
| Silk Road | trade route that linked China with the west |
| Eightfold Path | Budduism way to overcome shelfish desires |
| nirvana | release from the cycle of rebirth |
| Mandate of Heaven | justification to rule |
| Confucianism | Chines belief that people are inherently good |
| Great Wall of China | Built to keep nomads out. Isolated China from the rest of the world |
| subcontinent | land the juts out from a continent ex. India |
