Social Caste System
What is the term for the social caste of priests?
What is Brahmins
What are the Dravidians?
The native people of India.
What is the Harappan Society named after?
What is Harappa
What did the Aryans practice when they entered India?
Limited agriculture and pastoral economy
How many varnas are there?
Four
What is the term for the social caste of warriors/aristocrats?
What is Kshatriyas
Monhenjo-daro
When did archaeologists start to uncover material remains of the Harappan Society?
The 1920s
What were the Aryans most prized domesticated animals?
Horses and herds of cattle
What happened if you violated the jati rules?
Expulsion from the larger group of members.
What is the term for the social caste of cultivators/artisans?
What is Vaishyas
What is the Lawbook of Manu?
What language do scholars believe the Harrapans used?
Dravidian Tongue Language
What did the Aryans use their horses for?
They hitched them to chariots for transportation
True or False: People working the same jobs made you in the same social caste
True
What is the term for the social caste of landless workers?
What is Shudras
What is Karma?
True or False: The Harappans had plenty of written records for archaeologists discover.
What other animals did the Aryans domesticate?
Sheep and goats
True or False: People could survive when shunned by all members of the larger society?
False
What is the term for the social caste of people who do deal with dead bodies?
What are the untouchables
What is the vocab word for the dark skinned original Indians?
What are the Dasas.
Why is it impossible to follow the development of the Harappan Society?
Silt deposits have raised the level of the land in the Indus Valley, causing the water table to rise as well
Why were the Aryans horses so valuable?
Their expense and relative rarity
When were the subcastes almost fully developed?
Eighteenth and nineteenth BCE