Ancient India
These Indo-European people migrated/invaded the Indus Valley around 1,500 BC.
Who were the Aryans?
The caste system is a strict social system based on _____.
What is occupation?
This European country colonized India in the 1760s and held it until 1947.
What is Great Britain?
Indians that have no caste and perform the lowest jobs are referred to as _____.
What are untouchables or outcastes?
Many young men and women in India and Pakistan enter into these, which are chosen by their parents.
What are arranged marriages?
The Indus Valley Civilization was located along this river that is in Pakistan today.
What is the Indus River?
The highest order of the caste system - the Brahmins.
What are priests?
He was a leader of India's independence movement and taught nonviolent resistance.
Who was Gandhi?
These three modern countries were once part of British India.
What are India, Pakistan & Bangladesh.
The majority religion in Pakistan and Bangladesh?
What is Islam?
These were the holy texts and basis of the Aryan religion.
What are the Vedas?
The second highest order of the caste system - the Kshatriyas.
What are warriors and kings?
The British carried out this against 20,000 Indians at Amritsar in 1919.
What is a massacre?
Sanskrit belongs to this language family and is related to languages such as Latin and Greek.
What is Indo-European?
This industry makes up a significant amount of the industrial economy of Bangladesh and Pakistan.
What are textiles?
It's the oldest religion in the world, over 8,000 years old, and is based on the Aryan religious beliefs.
What is Hinduism?
The two occupations of the third highest ranking in the caste system - the Vaiysha.
What are merchants and landowners?
The Amritsar massacre was significant to Indian history for this reason.
What is it started the independence movement?
This country was created from East Pakistan in 1971.
What is Bangladesh?
This is the majority language in India.
What is Hindi?
This was the written and spoken language of the Aryans.
What is Sanskrit?
The two occupations of the fourth and lowest order of the caste system - the sudra.
What are peasants & servants/laborers?
After India and Pakistan split apart, these two unfortunate things occurred to India's Muslim population.
What was it was forced out or killed?
This is the majority language in Bangladesh and is based on Sanskrit.
What is Bengali?
Many Indian and Pakistani farmers are poor because of this reason.
What are small farms?