| A | B |
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| monsoon | seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia |
| Sanskrit | writing system developed by the Aryans |
| raja | Aryan prince or leader |
| caste system | set of rigid social categories or classes introuduced by Aryans into India |
| Hinduism | religion of the majority of Indians; originated in religious beliefs of Aryans |
| reincarnation | belief in cycle of rebirth common to both Hinduism and Buddhism |
| karma | force created by one's actions that will determine how a personn is reborn |
| dharma | divine laws of each caste that must be performed |
| ascetics | people who practice self-denial |
| nirvana | ultimate reality in Buddhism; union with Grreat World Soul |
| moksha | Hindu term for union with Brahmin |
| Buddhism | religon founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama |
| Silk Road | major trade rute that linked Aisa with western Europe |
| Vedas | collections of hymns and other religous rituals sacred to Hindus |
| Uanishads | collection of essays that tried to explain the Vedas |
| Harappan Civilization | early civilization that arose along the Indus River |
| Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | two major cities of the Harapan civilization |
| Aryans | Indo-Europeans who entered Indus Valley around 100 BC |
| Mauryan Dynasty | First India family to rule northern India |
| Chandragupta Mauryan | founder of the Mauryan Dynasty |
| Asoka | considered to be the greatest ruler in Indian history |
| Kushan kingdom | normadic warriors who conquered northern India and grew wealthy from trade along Silk Road |
| Guptan Dynasty | ruled India during its Golden Age |
| Chandragupta | foundered of the Guptan Dynasty |
| Mahabharata and Ramayana | India's great historical epics |
| Kalidasa | author of the Cloud Messenger |
| Aryabhata | most famous mathematician of the Gupta Dynasty |
| Theravada | sect of Buddhism that sees Buddhism as way of life |
| Mahayana | sect of Buddhism that sees Buddhism as a religion |
| Rajputs | Hindu warriors who tried to fight Mahmud of Ghazni, but failed |
| Mahmud of Ghazni | Muslim who attaced northern India for 17 consecutive years |
| Sultanate of Delhi | Islamic state established created in the northern Indian plain in 1200 AD |
| Timur Lenk | ruler of Mongol state based in Samarkand who raided Delhi and killed 100,000 Hindus |
| Dandin | great Sanskrit prose writer; author f The Ten Princes |
| Vietman | first peoples of SE Asia to create their own state |
| Angkor | Ancient kingdom of SE Asia; located in what is present day Cambodia |
| Thai | peoples who donflicted with Angkor and set up capital at Ayutthaya |
| Burmans | peoples from highlands of Tibet who formed own society in valleys of the Salween and Irrawaddy Rivers |
| Angkor Wat | famous temple |
