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Undergraduate 3
11/02/2011

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Subcontinent
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Another Geographical name for the peninsula of India is the
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Ganges
Indus
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The two major river systems of India are the
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Aryans
Definition
The people who invaded India in anctient times from the northwest and established the basic culture of the region were the
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Afghanistan
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They came from what is now the country of
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Khyber Pass
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The pass in the northwestern mountains which has been used by generations of invaders is the
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Hinduism
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The historic religion of India is
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Sanskrit
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Its sacred language is
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Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Definition
The three chief deities are
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Caste
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Hereditary social position in India is known as
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Karma
Definition
The law of Moral Retrobution
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Reincarnation
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In this religion the fate of the soul after deat is
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Avatar
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The term for a different incarnation of a god is an
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Rama
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The Ramayana is an epic poem dealing with the adventures of
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Dharma
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IN the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna lectures on the concept of duty known as
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Enlightened One
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The term buddha means
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Siddharta
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The buddhas original name was
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Life is Suffering
Suffering is caused by desires
End suffering by ending desires
End desires by following noble eightfold path
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The four noble Truths of Buddhism
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Reach Nirvana
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The goal of the Buddhas Middle way is
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Mahayana
Hinayana
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The two majro schools of Buddhism
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Bedhisattva
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A buddhist saint who refuses to go to Heaven before all mankind has been saved is a
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Gupta Empire
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A rare example of empire in the history of India was fro 320-467 AD the
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Jains Religion
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MAhavira was the founder of the extremely non-violent
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1000 AD
Definition
The moslem conquest of india was begun by Mahmud of Ghazni in the year
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Ceylon
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The old name for the island of Sri Lanka is
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Java
Definition
The most populous island in Indonesia which was the site of an ancient civilization is
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Angkor Wat
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the great temple complex built in Cambodia in the period(800-1400) which would be engulfed by the jungle was
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Pagan
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the city of ten thousand temples in burma was
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Tibet
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the mountainous country which lies between india and china
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Yellow
Yangzi
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The two major rivers in China
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Pinyin
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one of the systems for transliterating Chinese into English is
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Silh Road
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the ancient trade route linking China to the Middle east via Central Asia is
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Confucious
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the ancient Chinese sage which extolled respect for elders and tradition was
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Mandarin
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a scholar who studies the sages wisdom was a
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Daoism
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The legendary Chinese philosopher Laozi founded the religion of _____, pursuing the way
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Son of Heaven
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The proper title of the Chinese Emperor was the
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Mandate of Heaven
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The divine sanction on which Chinese emperors based their right to rule was known as the
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Dynastic Cycle
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The apttern of the rise and fal of imperial families is known as the
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Han
Shi
Tang
Sung
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Four Dynasties
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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The empire long united must divided; the empire long divided must be unite is the theme of the great novel The Romance of the
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Wu
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a famous Tang character was the Empress
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Steppe
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The term for the vast grasslands which stretch from the pacific across the norhtern asia to the baltic sea in europe
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Konea
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The strategic peninsula which lies between China and Japan
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Buddhism
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Higher civilization came to Japan in 552 AD with the introduction of
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Kyoto
Definition
The capital of Japan through most of its history was the city of
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Murisaki
Definition
The Tale of Genji was written by The Lady
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Feudalism
Definition
the social system which arose in western Europe in the period of 900-1100 was
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Fealty
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Loyalty was the basis of the system symbolized by the giving of an oath of
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Fief
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in return a pledger would receive an area of land known as
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Knights
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the mounted warrior who was the key figure of the system was the
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Squire
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the unarmed apprentice who served him was a
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Vassal
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the term for one who has pledged service to his lord is
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Nobles
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When the holding of rank and land became inheritable, the calss which emerged was the
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Serf
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a poor peasant who was tied to a specific village or area of land was
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Primogeniture
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the rule that the eldest song inherits everything is called
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Cluny
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the great French monastery, founded in 910 AD, which became the head of the bast network of monasteries was
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Schism
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in 1054 the division betweenRoman Catholic Church and the greek orthodox was formalized in a
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Gregory the 7th
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the pope who served from 1073-1085 and transformed the role of the Papacy was
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Cardinals
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He set the rule that popes would be elected by the college of
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Celebate
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He also insisted that henceforth all priests be
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Investiture Controversey
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He would challenge the power of the Emperor over the ussue of appointing bishops, the __________ Controversey
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Canossa
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In 1077 he forced the Emperor Henry IV to do penance in the snow at the castle of _____ in Northern Italy
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Cistercian
Definition
The monastic order founded by St. Bernard which emphasized manual work and plain churches in remote places was
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Holy Roman Empire
Definition
the empire of Charlemagne would end up in two fragments; one was the Kingdom of France, the other (which covered both germany and italy) was called the
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Otoo the First
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the first emperor of the latter was
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Magyar
Definition
Western Europe would not be invade by barbarians from the East again after he defeated the ________ in 955
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Capet
Definition
The roal family of France which would be the perfect example of dynasty was the
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1099
Definition
The first crusade took the city of Jerusalem in the year
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Seljuk Turks
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It was fought after the middle east had been overrun by the ____ turks
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Holy Lance
Definition
The relic discovered in a church in Antioch was the
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Jerusalem
Definition
The state crusaders establsihed in the holy land was called the Kingdom of
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Templar
Definition
One fo the great Crusader military orders established was the Knights of
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Cathedral
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A bishops church is called a
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William
Definition
The French duke who conquered England and whose descendants still sit on the british throne was
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Normans
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His followers were called from the name of his duchy
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1066
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He conquered England at the battle of hastings in the year
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Anselm
Definition
The eleventh Century Arch Bishop of Canterbury who was also a great theologian was Saint
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Ontological
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He produced a classic proof of the existence of God the _____ Argument
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