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Unit 5 Ancient India
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dalits | Harijans/Pariah/Untouchablest: any person outside the caste system |
| monsoons | The summer winds that come off of the Indian Ocean and bring tons of rain to India, good for farming, but bad due to flooding. |
| Caste System | A system of social classes in India into which a person was born. It determined their job and social status, from which one could never change. It was believed that if you lived a moral life, you would be reborn into a higher caste in the next life. |
| subcontinent | A large piece of land separated from the rest of the land by a large physical feature. |
| reincarnation | The belief that after death, the soul is reborn into a new life. If you led a good life, you were born into a higher caste. |
| Vedas | The religious books of Hinduism. |
| Sanskrit | the most important language of ancient India |
| karma | the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul |
| nirvana | Enlightenment |
| inoculation | injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help build up defenses to a disease |
| Brahmanism | early religion of the Aryans |
| Hinduism | A religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation |
| Upanishads | A major book in Hinduism that is often in the form of dialogues that explored the Vedas and the religious issues that they raised. |
| Buddhism | Happiness can be achieved through removal of one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment and the overcoming of suffering. |
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