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Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Citadel (Tier 3) | a fortress that commands a city and is used in the control of the inhabitants and in defense during attack or siege. |
Harappan (Tier 3) | A culture of the Indus Valley |
Venerated (Tier 2) | to regard or treat with reverence; revere |
Pantheon (Tier 3) | the place of the heroes or idols of any group, individual, movement, party, etc., or the heroes or idols themselves: |
Aryans (Tier 3) | a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. |
Rig Veda (Tier 3) | one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c. |
Indra (Tier 3) | Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder. |
Raja (Tier 3) | a king or prince in India. |
Caste System (Tier 3) | the rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes. |
Law book of Mane (Tier 3) | Moral behavior and social relationships,Advised men to treat women with honor and respect. |
Brahmins (Tier 3) | a person usually from an old, respected family who, because of wealth and social position, wields considerable social, economic, and political power. |
Kshatriyas (Tier 3) | a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans. |
Vaisya (Tier 3) | a member of the Hindu mercantile and professional class, above the Shudras and below the Kshatriyas. |
Shudras (Tier 3) | a Hindu of the lowest caste, that of the workers. |
Brahman (Tier 3) | Brahmin. a member of the highest, or priestly, class among the Hindus. |
Doctrine (Tier 2 | a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: |
Karma (Tier 3) | action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. |
Dravidian (Tier 3) | a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui. |
Varnas (Tier 3) | Caste system (from Sanskrit: class) |