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cht.4 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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citadel | protecting high grounds or a dominating city |
Harappan | a neolithic member that established by the nile river in 3000 B.C.E |
Venerated | A person who has a lot of respect in there society |
Pantheon | collectively all the gods and important people in a community |
Aryans | they were the community that established trough out Northern India |
Rig Veda | the most important veda out of the four they had |
Indra | he was a person who helped the locals with trips etc. |
Raja | It is a leader that was the leader for the chiefdoms and in latin it is king |
caste system | a system introduced for social classification by the Aryans |
Varnas | they were the clusters of the caste groups |
Brahmins | a member of the highest caste system (the priests) |
Kshatriyas | a member of the second caste system(the military) |
Vaishyas | a member of the caste system(farmers or merchants) |
Shudras | a worker of the lowest caste systems |
'"Law Book of Manu" | guide lines based on the hindu beliefs |
Brahman | the universel spirit they were "made of" |
doctrines | a belief or set of beliefs made by a church |
karma | destiny or fate held by the causes |
dravidian | a language that revolutionized from sanskrit |