Geography
This subcontinent is home to the Indus River and was also the home of two of the world's most popular religions.
What is The Indian subcontinent.
A philosophy of both Hinduism and Buddhism that dermines moving up or down a caste in your next life based on your actions is know as this.
What is karma?
In the 5th century, a moldboard (piece of metal or wood) was added to the ard to make a whole new tool, one which was asymmetrical and better adapted to heavy earth. This helpful tool can dig through the earth and upturn it, burying weeds and fertilizer as it goes.
What is the plow?
This precious metal was being used by Egyptians as far back as 3600 B.C.E. for decoration, jewelry and coins. There is also evidence of it being traded between the Indus River Valley, Afghanistan and as far as southern India.
What is gold?
This social hierarchy divided people based on religious rules. You could not change your position while alive, but if you led a good life you may be rewarded in your next one.
What is the caste system?
This river runs close to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, and is located in modern day Pakistan.
What is the Indus River.
A belief that people's souls live on after death and that all things can be reborn.
What is reincarnation?
Located in Mohenjo Daro, this well was the first of its kind. Heated with an underground furnace it was used for religious ceremonies and showcased their engineering and elaborate urban planning.
What is the public bath?
The Indus people traded with the Sumerian civilization: the finding of these markings in Mesopotamia and their ideographical similarity with the Mesopotamian version speak clearly of the trade and cultural exchange between these two great civilizations.
What are seals (Indus seals& Mesopotamian seals)?
Labeled and treated as outcasts, this social caste in Ancient India was repsonsible for jobs that nobody else wanted and they were treated very badly.
What are the Dalit (untouchables).
Spread across 1.5 million square kilometres between Afghanistan and the Arabian Sea and between Baluchistan and the Yamuna,this civilization was one of the most developed urban civilizations in the world who utilized extensive knowledge of technology in developing their towns: Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Lothal, Kalibangan.
What is the Indus River Valley civilization?
The goal of Hinduism is to escape the cycle of rebirth and reach a state of extreme happiness and peace.
What is nirvana?
This achievement was used for preserving grains (Indus people cultivated variety of crops like wheat, barley, rice, different pulses, musk melons, date palms and most notably cotton – cotton was first cultivated in India and Indus people exported cotton garments to the middle east).
What is a granary?
There are hundreds and thousands of beads, in a wide array of types & materials, each requiring its own manufacturing technology. The materials used for beads was agate, cernelion, lapis lazuli, shell, terracotta, gold, silver & copper. The use of these materials is evidence of this important aspect of civilization.
What is trade?
This varna was likely the most involved with the trading throughout the Indus River Valley and as far away as Afghanistan.
What are the Vaisyas?
DAILY DOUBLE
This mountain range borders modern day China, in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Himalayas?
What is meditation?
This ancient city was the largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization. Located in Sindh, it was one of the world's largest cities, populated with nearly 40,000 people. Until its decline in 1700 BCE, it was rich in agriculture with common staples being wheat and grain.
What is Mohenjo Daro?
While it is unlikely that trade only occured in one direction, this fertile area shaped like a crescent moon and neighboring the Indus River Valley to the northwest may have been a popular trading partner for items such as food and other raw materials.
What is Mesopotamia?
This group of cattle herders came to the Indus River Valley and brought with them their beliefs, customs, writing system and their rigid social structure known as the caste system. Evidence of their influence is still felt today.
Who are the Aryans?
This 2,525-kilometre-long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is known for its religious significance, as Hindus believe it is the holiest river in the world.
What is the Ganges?
Considered one of the oldest religions in the world without a single founder and evolved out of Arayan traditions found in the vedas.
What is Hinduism?
More than 3,000 years ago this higher level of thinking began in India and spread throughout it's surrounding areas. Recorded in the vedas, it became useful in the study of the sciences, including astronomy.
What is math? (concept of zero, +/- numbers)
Rare in the Indus River Valley, this bright blue rock was used for decoration and jewelry making. Imported from Sumer and Afghanistan evidence suggests that it was manufactured in the Indus River Valley.
What is Lapis Luzuli?
DAILY DOUBLE
Unlike the other three castes, they were not allowed to learn the Vedas and received little informal education despite being the majority of the population.
Who are the Sudras?