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Ch.4 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Citadel | a fortress typicaly on high ground |
| Harappan | the earliest urban society in India |
| Venerated | a recognition of something or somewhat |
| Pantheon | it is a set of beliefs |
| Aryans | they were heading people who spoke Indo-European Language |
| Rig Veda | a colection of hymns addressed to Aryans gods |
| Indra | was god to the Aryans |
| Raja | a leader of chiefdoms |
| Caste System | a social status of a society |
| Varnas | the four cast of the cast system |
| Brahmins | they were priests |
| Kshatriyas | they were warriors and aristrocrafts |
| Vaishyas | cultivators artisians and merchants |
| Shudras | landless peasants and serfs |
| " Law book of Manu" | Its a doctrine of rules that the people needed to follow |
| Brahman | is a eternal unchanging permanent foundation for all things that exist |
| Doctrine | when you write sets of ideas in a document |
| Karma | whatever you give to world you will get back in return |
| Dravidian | people that lived in the river valley before the Aryans came |
| politics | the harappans have no evidence of a political system |
| interactions with the envirement | |
| religion | were polytheistic |
| architecture | made temples fro there gods |
| technology | |
| economy | |
| society |