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Chapter 4 Vocab.
Question | Answer |
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A set of laws to bring order formed based on Hindu beliefs | "Law book of Manu" |
The core fortified area in town or city. | Citadel |
First indian civilization. | Harappan |
Regard with great respect | Venerated |
A building in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus | Pantheon |
The racial grouping used to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage. | Aryans |
An ancien indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. | Rig Veda |
Modern day country, land of the Aryans, Dravidians, and Harappan Society | Indra |
Title given to an Indian prince or king that demonstrates the government. | Raja |
in India is a system of social stratification which has pre-modern origins, was transformed by the British Raj, and is today the basis of reservation in India | Caste System |
Class of which a person was placed into according to Hindu law at birth | Varnas |
A varda in vedic hinduism and also a caste of people who are members of it. | Brahmins |
Second level of Varna, warrior class of Indian society | Kshatriyas |
Third level of Varna, merchant class of Indian society | Valshyas |
Fourth level of Varna, servant class of Indian society | Shudras |
A principle, position, or policy thought as of a religion or government. | Doctrine |
The idea that a persons actions determined their incarnation. | Karma |
A settled, well-organized people who built cities in India | Dravidian |
The Universal spirit of which we are all made and demonstrates thought and questions in after-life and creation | Brahmin |