Caste System
This group of people are left to deal with unclean tasks such as cleaning sewage. Ghandi called them Harijans.
What are dalits?
The first emperor of India who united independent northern states and rules most of northern India.
India has these, which cause regular rainfall during the summer.
What are monsoon winds?
This is the name for the social hierarchy in India.
The two theories for how Aryans ended up in India.
The group of people who are said to have come from Brahma's arms. They are typically rulers and warriors.
What are Kshatriyas?
Chandragupta Maurya did this, which resulted in him giving up his throne.
What is become a Jain monk?
India has this in common with the environments of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What is a river that provides fertile soil?
This is the basis and reasoning behind India's social hierarchy.
What is Hinduism?
This river empties into the Arabian sea.
What is the Indus River?
The group of people who came from Brahma's feet. They are typically workers.
What are Shudras?
After becoming a monk and renouncing his throne, Chandragupta Maurya did this, sealing his legacy.
What is establish a dynasty and give the throne to his son?
The most important part about India's northern border being made up of mountains
What is protection from outsiders?
The people at the top of India's hierarchy and the person at the top of Egypt's hierarchy.
Who are priests and teachers and the Pharaoh?
This happened between Aryans settling in northern India and Chandragupta Maurya establishing his empire.
What is chiefdoms becoming states?
The group of people said to have come from Brahma's head/mouth. They are typically priests and teachers.
This person was the 3rd emperor of India and ruled over almost all of modern India.
These are the reasons why people may have originally settled in the Indus River Valley
What are reliable water sources and fertile soil?
This is the type of rulers in charge of both the Mauryan Empire and Ancient Egypt.
Ashoka Maurya did this to help spread the message of Buddhism throughout India.
The people who come from Brahma's thighs/legs. They are merchants and traders.
What are vaishyas?
This is what Ashoka did after his last war.
This is the mountain range that lies on the northwestern border of ancient India.
Both India and Egypt have this type of person towards the bottom of their hierarchy.
What is a laborer?
The relationship between Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka.
What is grandfather and grandson?