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chapter 4
Question | Answer |
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harappan | a society |
aryans | Indo-European people |
vedic age | Indian history during which the Vedas |
law book of "manu" | ancient legal text |
karma | revenge on someone or something |
rig vega | ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns |
citadel | protecting or dominating a city. |
archaeologists | the scientific study of material remains |
Dravidian | family of languages spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka |
doctrine | a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group. |
shudras | a member of the worker caste |
varnas | each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. |
caste system | class structure that is determined by birth |
brahman | a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood. |
8000–7000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture in south Asia |
2500–2000 B.C.E. | High point of Harappan society |
1900 B.C.E. | Beginning of Harappan decline |
1500 B.C.E. | Beginning of Aryan migration to India |
1500–500 B.C.E. | Vedic age |
1400–900 B.C.E. | Composition of the Rig Veda |
1000 B.C.E. | Early Aryan migrations into the Ganges River valley |
1000 B.C.E. | Emergence of varna (means "color" refers to the social structuring from rich to poor known as the caste system, you can never change your caste) distinctions |
1000–500 B.C.E. | Formation of regional kingdoms in northern India |
800–400 B.C.E. | Composition of the principal Upanishads |
750 B.C.E. | Establishment of first Aryan cities in the Ganges valley |
500 B.C.E. | Early Aryan migrations to the Deccan Plateau |