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Vocabulary
Geography
Religion
Culture
City Life
100
A fortress
What is citadel
100
The people who settled in the Indus River Valley in 2500 B.C. were the _____.
What is Harappans
100
Means people can be reborn many times
What is reincarnation
100
The strict social division of Hindu society is called _____.
What is caste system
100
These helped the people of the Indus River Valley because they brought rain each year.
What is monsoons
200
Social Class
What is Varnas
200
The mountains to the north of the Indus River Valley are the ____.
What is Himalayas
200
The effect that good or bad actions have on the soul
What is karma
200
The four varnas described in the _____ were social classes in Indian Society.
What is Vedas
200
What is one of the two major cities of Ancient India.
What is a Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
300
The belief in non-violence
What is Ahimsa
300
The Harappan Civilization covered over 1,000 miles from the mountains in the north to which ocean?
What is Indian Ocean
300
Harrapan religion was _____ because they worshiped many gods.
What is polytheistic
300
The language of ancient India
What is Sanskrit
300
The difference between Harappan cities and Mesopotamian cities was that Harappan cities were well-planed communities laid out on a what?
What is a grid
400
Social group that a person is born into and cannot change
What is caste
400
The Indus River Valley was similar to Egypt because it was protected by what?
What is natural barriers
400
Hindus believe in non-violence. In the Hindu religion this is called ______.
What is ahimsa
400
Buddhism began in India but spread to other parts of Asia because _____ sent missionaries to those regions.
What is Asoka
400
The fact that cities developed in the Indus River Valley meant that most likely farmers there produced what?
What is a surplus of food
500
In Buddhism, a state of wisdom and freedom from the cycle of rebirth
What is Nirvana
500
When this group arrived in the Indus River Valley, they blended their culture with ideas from other cultures which resulted in a new religion called Hinduism.
What is Aryans
500
Scholars believe that a water-tight tank in Mohenjo-Daro, called _____, was used for religious rituals.
What is the Great Bath
500
The Gupta Empire is known as the Golden Age for several reasons. Name two.
What is tolerance shown to Buddhists and Jains; the flourishing of art-Buddhist and Hindu-education and architecture. Achievements were also made under the Guptas in metallurgy, mathematics, and sciences
500
Drains, wells, and private baths in Harappan homes meant that the city had a well planned what?
What is a sanitation system