Indus River Valley
After _________b.c. cities began to develop on the broad plains of the Indus Valley.
What is 3000
Many believe that the Aryans were _______________ who invaded India by crossing the mountains to the north
What are nomadic warriors?
A ___________ is a large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
The Vedas identify ___________ varnas, or caste groupings based on religion status.
What is four?
They were the only caste allowed to teach or study the Vedas.
What are the Brahmins?
The Indus Valley cities were the first to have
What is a sewer system?
The Aryans composed the __________________; a collection of hundreds of sacred hymns.
What are the Vedas?
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by the towering _______________.
What are the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains?
The ____________ were the highest caste.
What is Brahmin?
The caste of Farmers, Laborers and servants
What are Sudras?
Indus Valley farmers stored their surplus crops in a _____.
What is a granary?
_____________ is an Indo-Aryan language that is a distant relative to English
What is sanskirt?
The two main rivers on the Indian subcontinent?
What are the Indus and Ganges?
The _______________ were rulers and warriors
What are Kshatriyas?
The best known of the Vedas is the ______________. It is a collection of more then 1000 hymns.
What is the Rig Veda?
One of the two reasons we say the Indus Valley people were advanced in mathematics.
What are there cities were well organized and laid out on a grid and/or they had a common system of weights and measures.
Early on, the Aryans measured their wealth by the size of their ________________.
What is cattle herd?
Seasonal winds, known as ___________help shape life in India.
What are monsoons?
The landowners, bankers and merchants
What are the Vaishyas?
What was the most sacred text of the Mahabarata?
What is the Bhagavad-Gita
Two of the believed theories why the Indus Vally people disappeared
What are mosquitos, cutting down to many trees, floods, foreign invaders?
By 500 B.C. more then a dozen Aryan kingdoms and republics covered the _______________ Plain
What is Ganges?
For much of India, agriculture depends on the ___________ monsoons.
What is the summer?
They were considered outcasts
What are the Untouchables or Dalits?