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Your TopicVocabulary Ch. 8.1

Religious traditions

Ch. 8. 2 Powerful Empires

Ch. 8.3Family life in India

Ch. 8.4 India under British rule

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Topic 1: 200• Question:• Complete control over a market or a product• Answer• Monopoly

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Topic 1: 400• Question:• Indian troops who served in the British Army• Answer• sepoy

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Topic 1: 600• Question:• Pride in and loyalty to one’s country• Answer• Nationalism

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Topic 1: 800• Question:• Law of universal harmony • Answer• Dharma

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Topic 1: 1000• Question:• Higher caste members (teachers, scholars,

priests)• Answer• Brahmins

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Topic 2: 200• Question:• What are the two most sacred Hindu texts?• Answer• The Vedas and Upanishads

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Topic 2: 400• Question:• Name two important beliefs of Hindus.• Answer• Essential self, universal soul, nonviolence,

reincarnation, caste system, family values

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Topic 2: 600• Question:• Why does the story of Rama and Sita from the

Ramayana encourage Hindus to perform their dharma?

• Answer• Rama was banished due to a pact his father

made with his new wife. In the end, Rama followed his dharma and became king.

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Topic 2: 800• Question:• How were the untouchables treated in India?• Answer• They were tortured, raped, lynched, paraded

naked, murdered, houses burnt down (still happens to this day)

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Topic 2: 1000• Question:• What irony exists in the treatment of the

Untouchables by the police in modern India?• Answer• Police should protect but in reality they are

partaking in the mistreatment of the Untouchables

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Topic 3: 200• Question:• How did the Mughal Empire, under the rule of

Akbar, blend the Hindu and Muslim cultures?• Answer• Developed a new language, Urdu, which

combined Persian and Hindi and was written in Arabic script; religious tolerance, Akbar married a Hindu princess, abolished the special tax on Hindus, appointed Hindus to government jobs

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Topic 3: 400• Question:• Why did the Buddha teach people to follow

the Noble Eightfold Path?• Answer• To seek nirvana

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Topic 3: 600• Question:• What are two things that Hindus and

Buddhists have in common?• Answer• They both believe in karma, reincarnation, and

atman

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Topic 3: 800• Question:• What is the goal of life according to Hindus?• Answer• To free your soul from your body and to

achieve moksha

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Topic 3: 1000• Question:• According to Buddhists, what is the cause of

suffering?• Answer• desire

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Topic 4: 200• Question:• How did Hindus organize their society?• Answer• People belonged to four main castes (later a

5th). Caste was based on the idea that there were separate kinds of human.

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Topic 4: 400• Question:• What were women’s duties in society? • Answer• Marry, serve husband, and bear sons

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• How did the caste system affect the economic

development of India?• Answer• The caste system’s rigid rules was an enormous

obstacle to the growth of India into a modern nation. It hindered independent thought and thwarted the development of ambition for improvement that every nation needs to grow.

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Topic 4: 800• Question:• What special power do Hindu women

possess? • Answer• Shakti (creative energy only controlled by their

husbands)

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Topic 4: 1000• Question:• What is “Sati?”• Answer• It means “virtuous women”-widows who

threw themselves onto their husband’s funeral fires

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Topic 5: 200• Question:• Name three positive effects of British rule on

India.• Answer• Improved roads, ports, RR, telegraph, brought

Indians from different regions together, improved health care/sanitation, schools/colleges, creation of middle class

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Topic 5: 400• Question:• Name three negative effects of British rule on

India.• Answer• Didn’t respect religions, Christian missionaries,

limited self-rule, controlled trade, didn’t grow enough food, limited industry, encouraged disunity among Indians

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Topic 5: 600• Question:• Who won the Sepoy Rebellion? What

happened as a result of the Sepoy Rebellion?• Answer• The British were able to put down the

rebellion. The British government then took over India as a colony. They sent the last Mughal emperor into exile.

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Topic 5: 800• Question:• How did the British help unite people who

otherwise might have been rivals or enemies?• Answer• The British united powerful elements in Indian

society that otherwise would have been natural rivals power. (English became a common language, Nationalism, cultural awareness increased resentment against foreign rule)

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Topic 5: 1000• Question:• How did the Indian nationalism movement start?• Answer• British educated elite read about political ideals

such as liberty, freedom and “rule by the consent of the governed.” They formed groups such as the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts.

• Question:• Compare and contrast British colonization of India with the

British colonization of the US.• Answer• Compare-encouraged disunity among natives, fought with

French, trade was the motive, imperialism, cash crops• Contrast-British educated Indians while in the US natives were

not educated• US cash crops-sugar, cotton tobacco• India cash crops-tea, coffee, pepper• US-Slave trade

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