Strong central fortress found in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa

Seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons

A belief system based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, which stress freeing oneself from worldly desires

Divided Indian society into groups based on a person's wealth, birth, or occupation

Wisdom

Transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth

Lowest level of Indian Society; not considered a real part of the caste system; often given degrading jobs; their life was extremely difficult

the largest religion in India today; polytheistic (believed in many gods)

the path to Nirvana, comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced: right views,

The effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul

A member of the worker caste; lowest of the four Hindu caste

Each of the four Hindu castes: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Sudras

Hindus believe in the process when souls are born and reborn many times, each time in a new body

A single spiritual power that Hindus believe lives in everything...top of the caste system