Vocabulary
Indus Valley Civilization
Ancient Egypt
Ancient India
Aryan Civilization
100

A large landmass that is smaller that a continent.

What is a subcontinent?

100

What did the Indus Valley civilians make their houses out of?

What is oven-made bricks?

100
this artistic style of writing was developed by the Egyptians
What is hieroglyphics?
100
the founder of Buddhism
What is Siddhartha Gautauma?
100

What two things did the Aryans stop doing?

What is stop living as Nomads and Stopped eating meat?

200

Seasonal wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern asia.

What is a monsoon?

200

How did most Indus Valley people earn a living?

What are trading and farming?

200
Egyptians relied on this for information about the afterlife
What is the book of the dead?
200
The first Indian Empire
What is the Maurya Empire?
200

The Aryans wrote down songs, stories, poems and prayers in this book called what.

What is Vedas?

300

This person is also known as a teacher.

What is a guru?

300
what was the population of the Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro cities?

What is 35,000?

300
Egyptians based many of their religious beliefs on this
What is the natural environment?
300
Mathematical cultural advance made by the Indians
What is decimal system?
300

This is a group of similar languages

What is language family?

400

the rebirth of a soul

What is reincarnation?

400

If the rains would come late, what would happen to the crops?

What is ruin the crops?

400
the most important element in allowing Egypt to become and remain a unified state
What is the Nile River?
400
The caste system in order of rank (highest to lowest)
What are the brahmins, kshattriyas, vaisyas, sudras?
400

this written language was developed by the Aryans to keep record of sales and to communicate better.

What is Sanskrit?

500

The universal spirit worshipped by Hindus

What is Brahman?

500

the Indus Valley civilization began around what river?

What is the Indus River?

500
This discovery helped scholars understand the meaning of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta stone?
500
The major difference between Buddhism and Hinduism
What is Hinduism believes in the caste system and Buddhism does not?
500

The four social classes of India were called what

What are Varnas?

Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras

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