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chapter 4 vocabulary
vocab
Question | Answer |
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Citadel | A fortress on high ground, protecting or dominating a city. |
Harappan | Of or relating to Harappa, especially the Bronze Age culture of the indus valley civilization. |
Venerated | To regard or treat with reverence;revere. |
Pantheon | All the gods of people or religion collectively. |
Aryans | Relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-european language who invaded northern language. |
Rig Veda | One of the vedas a collection of 1028 hymns dating from not later the 2 million b.c. |
Indra | The warrior king of heavens god of war and storm to whom many of the preyers in Rig Veda are addressed to. |
Raja | A leader. |
Caste System | Class structure that is determine by birth.Depends on your skin color. |
Varnas | Each of the four Hindu castes: Brahamins,Kshatriyas, Valshyas and Shudras. |
Brahmins | A member of the highest Hindu castes that of the priesthood. |
Kshatriyas | The second of the Hindu caste, the military caste. |
Valshyas | A member of the third caste in the Hindu castes, the merchants and the farmers. |
Shudras | A member of the worker caste the lowest in the Hindu castes. |
Law book of Manu | It is a legal and religious text that elaborates on the basic Hindu tenets. |
Brahman | The ultimate reality underlying all phenomena. |
Dotrine | a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group. |
Karma | the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. |
Dravidian | the Dravidian family of languages. |