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HISTORY CH. 5
Term | Definition |
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Alexander the Great | first person to take some of India's cotton goods and introduced them in Europe |
Aryans | began coming to India through the mountain passes around 1500 BC |
Bangladesh | country that used to be East Pakistan |
Brahmins | made up the most important caste |
Buddhism | religion similar to Hinduism |
Calico | type of printed cotton material named after the city Calicuta |
Caste System | social plan that keeps people apart from each other |
Cotton | grown in India |
Decimal Number System | place value |
Dravidians | mainly merchants who lived in prosperous cities and traded cotton goods |
Dynasty | a line of rulers that succeed each other in the same family |
Gandhi | key leader in India's struggle for independence |
Himalayan Mountains | mountains that form a band between India and China |
Hinduism | main religeon of India |
India | third largest nation in Asia and second most populated country in the world |
Indus River | flows 900 miles from the Himalayan mountains down to the coast |
Indus | river valley home of India's ancient civilization |
Mt Everest | highest mountain on earth located in Nepal |
Nehru | first prime minister of India in 1947 |
Nirvana | state of being free from suffering |
Outcaste | a person who broke the rules of his caste and was put out of his caste... also know as "untouchables" |
Reincarnation | belief that when someone dies his soul is reborn into some other newborn man or animal |
Taj Mahal | a dynasties ruler built as a tomb for his favorite wife |
Three main rivers in India | Ganges |
Vasco da Game | first European to reach India by sailing around Africa |
William Cary | Father of Modern Missions |
Zero | means not any |