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Indus River Valley
Aryans
Geography
Caste System
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100
After _________b.c. cities began to develop on the broad plains of the Indus Valley.
What is 3000
100
Many believe that the Aryans were _______________ who invaded India by crossing the mountains to the north
What are nomadic warriors?
100
A ___________ is a large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
The Vedas identify ___________ varnas, or caste groupings based on religion status.
What is four?
100
They were the only caste allowed to teach the Vedas.
What are the Brahmins?
200
The Indus Valley cities were the first to have
What is a sewer system?
200
The Aryans composed the __________________; a collection of hundreds of sacred hymns.
What are the Vedas?
200
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by the towering _______________.
What are the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains?
200
The ____________ were the highest varna.
What is Brahmin?
200
The caste of Farmers, Laborers and servants
What are Sudras?
300
Indus Valley farmers stored their surplus crops in a _____.
What is a granary?
300
_____________ is an Indo-Aryan language that is a distant relative to English
What is sanskirt?
300
The two main rivers on the Indian subcontinent?
What are the Indus and Ganges?
300
The _______________ were rulers and warriors
What are Kshatriyas?
300
The best known of the Vedas is the ______________. It is a collection of more then 1000 hymns.
What is the Rig Veda?
400
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.
400
Early on, the Aryans measured their wealth by the size of their ________________.
What is cattle herd?
400
Seasonal winds, known as ___________help shape life in India.
What are monsoons?
400
The landowners, bankers and merchants
What are the Vaishyas?
400
Two of the items that the Indus Valley people traded?
What are jewelry, cotton cloth or teak?
500
Two of the believed theories why the Indus Vally people disappeared
What are mosquitos, cutting down to many trees, floods, foreign invaders?
500
By 500 B.C. more then a dozen Aryan kingdoms and republics covered the _______________ Plain
What is Ganges?
500
For much of India, agriculture depends on the ___________ monsoons.
What is the summer?
500
They were considered outcast
What are the Dalits?
500
This group introduced the Caste social structure.
What are the Aryans?