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India is
What is a subcontinent?
Also known as the Harappan Civilization
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
Two major Harappan cities
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
They migrated to India from Central Asia
Who are the Aryans?
Type of farming tools Aryans developed
What is Iron tools?
An Indian social class of which there are four
What is a varna?
Type of marriage in Ancient India
What is arranged or infant marriage?
Separate India from Asia
What are the Himalayas?
Where Nomads settled around 3,000 BC
Where is the Indus River Valley
Number of citizens in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro each
What is 35,000+?
A group of similar languages
What is a language family?
The Aryan language
What is Sanskrit?
This had the greatest influence on which varna one occupied
What is Jati (birth)?
Laborer Varna
What is a Sudra?
World's tallest mountain
What is Mount Everest?
Modern name for location of Indus River Valley
What is Pakistan?
Harappan building material
What is brick?
Where the Aryans settled
What is the Ganges River Valley?
Aryan sacred texts
What are the Vedas?
This group was outcast, outside the class system all together
What are the Untouchables (Dalits)
Merchant Varna
What is a Vaisya?
Landmass that takes up 2/3 of southern India
What is the Deccan Plateau?
A lack of rainfall
What is a drought?
The tallest feature every Harappan city had
What is a fortress?
Local Aryan ruler
What is a Raja?
The time when the Vedas were composed
What is the Vedic Period?
An Indian teacher
What is a guru?
Priestly Varna
What is Brahmin?
India's three great rivers
What are the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra?
Seasonal wind patterns that determine India's climate
What are monsoons?
The age obtained by the Harappan civilization
What is the Bronze Age?
Adjective for original occupants
What is indigenous?
The other language group the Aryans encountered and with whom they mingled to produce India's single Vedic culture
What is Davidian?
This group first assigned the term caste to the Jati system
Who are the Portuguese?
Governor Varna
What is a Kshatriyas?