Vocabulary words:
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Caste
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Citadel
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Dike
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Loess
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Monsoon
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Reincarnation
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Subcontinent
Geography of India and China/ Ancient India
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Mountains
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Rivers
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Indus and Ganges Rivers
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Yellow River( Huang) and Yangtze River
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Isolation of China
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Major cities of Ancient India
Caste System
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Aryan invasion/ Dravidians
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Knows the castes, pyramid, body parts associated with them
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Explain differences between caste system and class system in the U.S.
Hinduism
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Know the three things that Hinduism does not have compared to
other major religions of the world
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Karma
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Samsara
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Dharma
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Vedas
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The Bhagavad Gītā
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The Upanishads
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Moksha
Buddhism
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Nirvana
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Cause of suffering
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Three Jewels of Buddhism
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Eightfold path
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Four noble truth
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Yoga
Compare and Contrast Buddhism and Hinduism
Ancient China
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Know the Shang, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties
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Accomplishments
Confucianism
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Analects
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Mencius
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Mandate of Heaven
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Legalism
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Great Wall of China
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Reason it was built
Terra Cotta Army
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What is it?