Unit 2.5 Vocabulary

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The ​

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were nomadic people who lived by herding cattle and fighting

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This caste of people performed the lowliest jobs such as handling the dead, cleaning toilets, and sweeping streets.

• Untouchables

• Peasants

• Landowners

• Warriors

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is the enlightened one.

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The ​

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explain that pain and suffering is caused by human desires.

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Buddhists follow the ​

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that people should have the right goals, perspective, act in a worthy manner, speak truthfully, live righteously, respect all living things, and meditate.

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Wanting something is known as a

• need

• hatred

• craving

• allergy

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The belief that the Chinese ruler was chosen to rule by heaven was known as the

• Heavenly Decree

• God's Will

• Satan's Decree

• Mandate of Heaven

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Who was the Chinese philosopher?

• Aristotle

• Confucius

• Archimedes

• Plato

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The concept that children should be devoted to their parents is known as

• filial piety

• familial devotion

• paternalistic piety

• maternal devotion

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This was a form of Chinese philosophy.

• Hinduism

• Daoism

• Christianity

• Metaphysics

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 is/was a protective wall that stretched 1,500 miles around China. 

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The ​

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was an overland trade route that connected the Roman Empire to China.​

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The Arabian Sea and the ​

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border India.

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The ​​

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is the eastern border of China.

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The Aryan for of writing is known as ​

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The Aryans brought the ​

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religion to India.

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​

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is the Hindu belief that at death, a person's soul is reborn as another living thing.

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​ ​ refers to a person’s behavior in life which determines a person’s form in the next life.

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By following the Eightfold Path an individual can escape the soul’s endless cycles of reincarnation and achieve ​

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Under the caste system of India people lacked ​

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