social studies: words to know for the test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Meditation | a way of clearing the mind |
| Enlightenment | a state of pure goodness |
| Buddhism | a religion created by the Buddha |
| Reincarnation | through which a person goes through one life to the next |
| Caste | a life long social group into which he or she is born |
| Hinduism | a major religion in India |
| Persian Empire | an empire that stretched on the Mediterranean Sea in the Indus River Valley |
| Chandragupta Maurya | a soldier who seized the power of India,founder of the Mauryan Empire |
| Ashoka | grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; completed conquests of Indian subcontinent; converted to Buddhism and sponsored spread of new religion throughout his empire |
| Sanskrit | Aryan language |
| Sudras | lowest rank; ordered to farm and serve others |
| Zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster |
| Brahmins | Priests and teachers at the top of the caste system |
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