Geography
Culture/Society
Vedic Period
Hierarchy
100
This is the continent where India is located.
What is Asia?
100
Civilizations started to develop around this time.
What is 2500 BCE?
100
This word means "noble" in Sanskrit.
What is "aryan?"
100
The number of sections and what they are called in the hierarchy.
What is 4 and varnas?
200
The number of geographic zones in the Indian Subcontinent.
What is three?
200
Fortresses of meeting halls and graneries.
What is a citadel?
200
Sacred writings of Aryan history and society.
What are the vedas?
200
Varnas were divided into hundreds of these.
What are castes?
300
Winds that brought rain to the Northern Plains.
What is a monsoon?
300
Two main ruins found of the Indus Valley Civilization.
What is Harappa and Mojenjo Daro?
300
Rulers of villages who were also war leaders.
What is a raja?
300
The person at the top of the hierarchy.
What is a brahmin?
400
Three main rivers of the Indus Valley Civilization.
What is Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers?
400
The two main focuses of the civilization.
What is agriculture and trade?
400
The three aspects of a single spirit.
What is fire sacrifices, hyms, and ceremonies?
400
People who did the dirty jobs and who were discriminated like slaves.
What are the untouchables?
500
The zones of the Indian subcontinent.
What is Himilaya and Hindu Kush mountains, Deccan Plateau, and Northern Plains?
500
This British person recorded the first notes of ruins.
Who is John Marshall?
500
The area that was not ruled by the Aryans. (Hint: directions)
What is the South?
500
These people are in the Vaisya Varna.
What are commoners, traders, and farmers?
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