Physical Features
This river was essential for the development of the Indus River Valley civilization.
What is the Indus River?
This is India's most prominent religion, and the 3rd largest religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
The division of social class mainly by birth, justified by the Vedas.
What is the Caste System?
Ancient Indians studied this to track the days and nights, seasons, and predict solar eclipses.
What is astronomy?
Used as a method of trade
The tallest mountains in the world, located in northern India.
What are the Himalayas?
These texts were used as a basis for Hinduism, they contained hymns and poems.
What are the Vedas?
The highest social division, or caste, in India; reserved for Hindu priests and religious teachers.
Who are the Brahmins?
Who is India?
What two rivers were used as trade routes in India?
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River?
The 2nd major river in northern India, located south of the Himalayas. Was primarily used as a trade route under the Gupta Empire.
What is the Ganges River?
When souls are born and reborn many times, each in a new physical form.
What is reincarnation?
This caste is responsible for trade, commerce, and agriculture.
Who are the Vaisyas?
The ancient Indians are credited with the creation of this number in the number system.
What is zero?
This religion began to spread along trade routes by merchants during the Gupta Empire.
What is Buddhism?
These smaller mountain ranges in northern India created a barrier between India and the Middle East, but the Huns would eventually use routes through them to invade India.
What are the Hindu Kush mountains?
The effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul, believed to determine where your soul is reborn.
What is karma?
This caste would be responsible for carrying goods from a market to a customer's home.
Who are the Sudras?
The mixture of two or more metals; used to create high quality tools and weapons by the ancient Indians.
What are alloys?
These were used as a form of currency before metal coins along the Ganges River.
What are cattle/cows?
The desert south of the Hindu Kush mountains and Indus River.
What is the Thar Desert?
This is the Hindu deity of creation.
Who is Brahma?
The relationship the untouchables have with the classes in the caste system in ancient India.
What is they were excluded from society?
The first Mauryan emperor was known for having a large army of spies, soldiers, and what else?
Name 1 thing that the ancient Indus River Valley civilizations traded.
What is high quality weapons, tools, gemstones, jewelry, metals, and/or spices?