HWG Unit 3 Vocab

A religion founded in India in the sixth century B.C., whose members believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore should not be harmed.

An Indo-European people who, about 1500 B.C., began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent.

A violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of South Asia.

In Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests.

An Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation.

Fourth of the Four Noble Truths that is the system to achieve spiritual enlightenment and cease suffering; also called the Middle Path or Middle Way.

In Buddhism, a state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truths about the universe.

The doctrines of Buddha that are the essence of Buddhism; all life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path.

A 20th-century attempt to increase food resources worldwide, involving the use of fertilizers and pesticides and the development of disease-resistant crops.

Ring-like coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon.