India and China

a seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia

• karma

• monsoon

• Sanskrit

• caste

he most famous section of the book, _______, is a sermon by the god Krishna on the eve of a major battle

• Ramayana

• Mahabharata

• Bhagavad Gita

• Krishna

a writing system developed by the Aryans

• nirvana

• yoga

• Sanskrit

• raja

the English term for an Indian social class

• reincarnation

• Buddhism

• nirvana

• caste

an Aryan prince or leader

• Hinduism

• raja

• Sanskrit

• dharma

a set of rigid social categories or classes that determines a person's occupation, economic potential, and position in society

• raja

• caste system

• karma

• nirvana

the religion of the majority of the Indian people that originated in the religious beliefs of the Aryans

• Hinduism

• dharma

• Buddhism

• yoga

the belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death

• caste

• nirvana

• karma

• reincarnation

a religion founded in India in the sixth century B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha

• dharma

• ascetics

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

ultimate reality in Buddhism (the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul)

• nirvana

• Buddhism

• dharma

• karma