Geography and Nature
This wind system brings the rain needed for crops.
What is a monsoon?
One of the first two cities found in the Indus Valley.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
These were used by traders to identify their goods.
What are seals?
What is Sanskrit?
This is the name for the priest caste.
Who are the Brahmins?
These two major river systems supported the civilization.
What are the Ganges and Indus Rivers?
These were used to build Indus Valley houses.
What are oven-fired bricks?
Two crops exported by the Indus Valley Civilization.
What are wheat and cotton?
Scared verses used to worship Brahman.
What are the Vedas?
Because you cannot move up or down, the system is called this.
What is fixed?
Two of the five natural borders of India?
What are the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, or Bay of Bengal?
This building was used to store surplus grain.
What is a granary?
Name two animals they domesticated.
What are elephants, cows, goats, ducks, chicken, or sheep?
The one supreme being who lives in everything.
Who is Brahman?
The estimated number of castes in India today.
What is over 2,000?
Two possible reasons for the civilization's decline.
What are flooding, earthquakes, foreign invaders, no land fertility, or drought?
A unique urban feature involving pipes and waste.
What is a sewage/plumbing system?
Two precious materials they imported.
What are precious stones, jewelry, gold, or timber?
The Hindu goal of release from life.
What is Moksha?
The name for those who did jobs no one else would do.
Who are the untouchables?
A benefit of having natural boarders.
What is to protect them from invaders?
The early Indus River Valley Civilizations did this to their cities to protect them from monsoons.
What is built them on raised mounds?
The reason they domesticated animals.
What is to help them with travel, trading and farming?
What are Pleasure, Success, Ethical/Moral Life (Dharma), and Release from Life (Moksha)?
The caste system was set up for this reason.
What is to bring stability to society?