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History Ch.4 & 5
Homework
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harappan | Among of the first societies to appear in the Indus Valley |
| Political's of the Harappan Society | It is not much know about it due their society being under the water table |
| Interactions of the Harappan Society with their surroundings | They had agriculture within their civilizations with the Indus River and gathered wheat, cotton and barley |
| Religious beliefs of the Harappan Society | Their beliefs were heavily based in fertility of their land |
| Art and Architecture of Harappan Society | Broad streets, marketplaces, temples, public buildings |
| Technology of the Harappan Society | They had structures that had the ability to measure heights, weights and other measurements |
| Economics of the Harappan Society | They had social distinctions had not much is known due to the water table rising |
| Society of the Harappan's | All that is truly known is that the population started to decline from 1900 B.C.E to onward |
| Citadel | a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city |
| Venerated | egard with great respect; revere |
| Pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion collectively |
| Aryans | A ground of raiders that invaded Dravidian and other aboriginal locations |
| Rig Veda | The Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns |
| Indra | The leader of the Devas and the lord of Svargaloka or heaven in Hinduism. |
| Raja | An Indian prince or king |
| Caste system | A social class system that is determine by birth |
| Varnas | Each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. |
| Brahmins | A member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood. |
| Kshatriyas | A member of the second of the four great Hindu castes, the military caste. |
| Shudras | A member of the worker caste, lowest of the four Hindu castes. |
| "Law Book of Manu" | Guidelins formed based on Hindu beliefs |
| Brahman | A member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood. |
| Doctrine | A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party |
| Karma | Destiny or fate, following as effect from cause. |
| Dravidian | Of, relating to, or denoting a family of languages spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, or the peoples who speak them. |
| Political's of the Aryan Society | They were mainly a pastoral economy and soon after adopted agriculture |
| Interactions of the Aryan Society with their surroundings | Grew crops near the Indus river, used iron tools to help with building buildings or laying out land |
| Religious Beliefs's of the Aryan Society | They were polytheistic or in other words believed in more than one god |
| Art and Architecture of the Aryan Society | They built temples to worship their gods and to help their priests connect with they gods |
| Technology of the Aryan Society | They had revolutionized warfare with using iron weapons to their advantage |
| Economics of the Aryan Society | |
| Society of the Aryan's | Men were the one that had control of just about everything from marriage to politics |