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- - - - Monsoons are big rainstorms that happen annually and flood rivers. In this case the Indus river would flood and bring fertile soil to the riverbank.
  - - - The Indus river is the reason why anyone stayed in India it brought some of the most fertile soil in the world to the bank of the river where it would be used for farming.
    - - The Ganges River is a 1569 mile long river flowing across India .
- - - - Sanskrit was a religious language brought to Indus by the Aryan people who migrated to the Indus valley.
  - - - Hinduism was the main religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation The main belief was that humans and the universe were reincarnated. The ultimate goal was to ascend to moksha.
    - - Reincarnation is dying and then being reborn as something else.
    - - Karma was the belief that if you did something bad, something bad would happen to you.
    - - Dharma is if you are a certain caste you have to act like that caste.
    - - The ultimate goal in a hindu's life was to ascend to moksha. Moksha ment becoming a nonliving spiritual being.
  - - - The Caste system in India was that whatever job you had would determine your position in life. For example, if you were a priest you would be the highest on the list, then came kings and soldiers, then merchants, then servants, then peasants, and then you had untouchables which were highly discriminated.
        
        Vaishya
        
        merchants and business people
        
        Sudra
        
        Servants
        
        Kshatriyas
        
        KIngs and warriors
        
        Brahmans
        
        Brahmans were the best you could get without ascending to Moksha. Brahmans were made up of priests and monks.
        
        Untouchables
        
        The lowest rank. Discriminated
        
        Peasants
        
        Peasants
    - - An art form
    - - The belief in more than one god
  - - - The Buddha was a real person in history. His name was Siddhārtha Gautama. and he was a prince. Growing up he had never been outside of the palace, so one night he snuck out and saw an old man, a sick man, and a rotting corpse. He then knew that life was suffering, so he tried to figure out a way to get rid of suffering. He invented the four noble truths and the eightfold path.
    - - Nirvana is when you are living and you are in a state of holiness
      - Parinirvana is when you die when you are in nirvana.
      - The eightfold path and the four noble truths.
        
        The four noble truths were four things that the buddha said were true
        
        the truth of the cause of suffering
        
        The truth of the end of suffering
        
        The truth of suffering
        
        The truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
        
        The eightfold path was a path you could follow to get to nirvana
        
        The Right Action
        
        The Right Livelihood
        
        The Right Speech
        
        The Right Effort
        
        The Right Intention
        
        The Right Concentation
        
        The Right View
        
        The Right Mindfulness
        
        The middle way
        
        The middle way meant doing all the eightfold path things equally
    - - Being taught something.
      - Meditation
        
        Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state
      - Monk
        
        a monk is a member of a religious order who lives a communal life in a monastery, abbey, or priory under a monastic rule of life
        
        Mudras
        
        Hand symbols that represent something
    - - Ashoka was an Indian emperor who ruled almost all of India from 268 to 232.