Social Studies Flash Cards: Hindu Terms
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| Aryans | Noble people,traditionally refers to any people, irrespective of race, who have a culture based on spiritual values
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| Dravidians | A large family of languages spoken especially in southern India and northern Sri Lanka that includes Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada
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| Sanskrit | the language the Aryan's of India developed to write down their oral religious traditions
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| Vedas | Oral religious traditions of the Aryans that are still used in religious ceremonies in India
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| Brahman | The single supreme force in Hinduism of the reality of the universe, it contains each of the 300,00 Hindu Gods
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| Trimurti | A trinity consisting of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer
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| Atman | One's essential self that is part of a universal soul, a non-material self
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| Caste System | Social Groups based on your birth, describes your social restrictions, the four different classes were called the Varnas, the priests (Brahmans) the warriors (Kshatriyas) the landowners/merchants/herders (Vaisyas) and servants/peasants (Sudras)
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| The Untouchables | People in India that had jobs that were polluting and unclean, they were deemed untouchable because they were "polluting the people", they had no rights in society
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| Maya | The limited physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become a part of, an illusion, the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman
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| Reincarnation | The Hindu belief that the soul is reborn in various forms, the circle of life and death, the rebirth of a soul in another body
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| Samsara | The process of being reborn into existence as a different person
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