Indus Valley streets were arranged in this pattern?
What is a grid?
100
Social class into which a person is born
What is a caste?
100
A special building used to hold grain
What is a granary?
100
The language of the Indo-Aryan people,
What is Sanskrit?
100
Seasonal wind pattern that controls rainfall
What is a monsoon?
200
Houses were made from this material
What is brick?
200
The people of this class are the farmers and menial workers.
Who are the Sudras?
200
To bring goods in from another land
What is to import?
200
Poems that tell the story of the Indo-Aryan people & their gods.
What are the Vedas?
200
Over time, the way of life of the Indo-Aryans shifted from nomadic herders to this.
What is farming?
300
The first civilization on the Indian subcontinent began along this river.
What is the Indus River?
300
The Kshatriyas were made up of these people.
Who were rulers and warriors?
300
The Indus Valley Civilization used these to build its most important buildings.
What are oven-fired bricks?
300
The best known of the sacred poems, and includes more than 1,000 poems.
What is the Rig Veda?
300
The Indus River flows into this sea.
What is the Arabian Sea?
400
A geographic feature that separates northern India from the rest of Asia.
What are mountains?
400
The two major river systems on the Indian subcontinent
What are the Indus and the Ganges Rivers?
400
The only examples of possible Indus Valley writing that have been found are symbols on these.
What are stone seals and pottery?
400
The first Indo-Aryans in the Indus River valley were this.
What were nomadic herders?
400
The members of this class were the artisans, bankers, and merchants.
Who are the Vaishas?
500
This body of water flows into the Arabian Sea.
What is the Indus River?
500
The five social classes of the Caste System.
What are Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras, and Untouchables?
500
TWO examples of how well-planned were the early Indus Valley cities
What are 1.Streets in a grid pattern
2. Sewage & Plumbing system
3. Cities on raised mounds
4.Houses built out of brick
500
Scholars have learned this about the Indus Valley civilization from its writing.
What is nothing, because they have not yet learned to read it?
500
1.Brought stability to Indian Society
2.Gave people a sense of belonging
3. Skills passed down through members of the caste allowed people to be experts at what they did.