SIDDHARTA HAS THIS TITLE MEANING “THE ENLIGHTENED ONE”

BUDDHA

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS ARE:

All people suffer and know sorrow Reason for suffering is a craving for individual fulfillment Desire for individuality must be overcome Way to overcome individual desires is through the Eightfold Path

A PRINCE WHO AT THE AGE OF 29 TRAVELED AND TAUGHT

SIDDHARTA GAUTAMA

FREEDOM FROM SUFFERING - RELEASE FROM ALL DESIRES

NIRVANA

ONE BRANCH OF BUDDHISM THAT BELIEVES THAT BUDDHA WAS A GOD AND A SAVIOR

MAHAYANA

ONE BRANCH OF BUDDHISM THAT BELIEVES THAT BUDDHA WAS SIMPLY A TEACHER

THERAVADA

STONE STRUCTURES BUILT OVER THE REMAINS OF HOLY MEN

STUPAS

THIS IS A CODE TO LIVE BY - EACH STEP MUST BE MASTERED BEFORE GOING TO THE NEXT STEP

EIGHTFOLD PATH

RELIGION OF INDIA

HINDUISM

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXERCISE

REBIRTH OF SOULS

REINCARNATION

THE IDEA OF WHAT YOU DO IN THIS LIFE DETERMINES WHAT YOU ARE IN THE NEXT LIFE

KARMA

HINDUS PROTECT ALL LIVING THINGS

AHIMSA

INDIAN KINGDOM CENTER OF EMPIRE

MAGADHA

RULDED MAGADHA

KING BIMBISARA

LAWS WRITTEN IN STONE - STRESSED CONCERN FOR OTHERS

ROCK EDICTS

MILITARY OFFICIER WHO OVERTHREW THE KING OF MAGADHA AND STARTED THE MAURYAN EMPIRE

CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA

KINGDOM IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIA

MAURYAN KINGDOM

HE FOLLOWED THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA HE STRESSED LAWS CONCERNING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS HIS RULE WAS CALLED THE ENLIGHTENED RULE

ASOKA

HE RULED THE GUPTA DYNASTYIN NORTHERN INDIA - ARTS AND SCIENCES FLOURISHED DURING HIS REIGN - IT WAS INDIA’S GOLDEN AGE

CHANDRAGUPTA I

NAME CONTRIBUTIONS IN MATHEMATICS

ALGEBRACONCEPT OF INFINITY ARABIC NUMBERS CONCEPT OF ZERO

NAME CONTRIBUTIONS IN ASTRONOMY

THEORY OF GRAVITY THEORIZED THAT THE EARTH WAS ROUND

SMALL INDIAN EMPIRE IN NORTHERN INDIA - USED SPIES AND POLITICAL ASSASSINS

GUPTA EMPIRE

BOOK OF FOLK TALES PRSENTING MORAL LESSONS THROUGH ANIMALS WHO ACTED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS

PANCHATANTRA

NAME THE 5 SOCIAL CLASSES OF INDIA

BRAHMANS - PRIESTS KSHATRIYAS – WARRIORS RULERS VAISYAS – MERCHANTS, ARTISANS FARMERS SUDRAS – UNSKILLED LABORERS SERVANTS PARIAHS - SLAVES

MOUNTAINS NORTHWEST OF INDIA

HINDU KUSH MOUNTAINS

TRIBE THAT INVADED INDIA IT MEANS “NOBLE ONES”

PASSAGE WAY THROUGH THE HINDU KUSH MOUNTAINS

KYBER PASS

ARYAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE

SANSKRIT

NAME OF THE CHIEF OF THE ARYAN TRIBES

FOUR MAJOR SOCIAL CLASSES OF ARYAN SOCIETY

LONG NARRATIVE POEMS

EUROPEAN’S NAME FOR THE INDIAN CLASS SYSTEM

CASTE SYSTEM

SOCIAL OUTCASTES

UNTOUCHABLES

DUTIES OF THE MALES

RELIEF FROM GOING TO ONE LEVEL TO THE NEXT

MOKSHA