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Vocab, P.I.R.A.T.E.S, Chronology Ch.4 Per.1 (3500-500 B.C.E)

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CITADEL   a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city  
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HARAPPAN(1)   The Harappan lived in a village in Pakistan...site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization -lived in a Bronze Age and their culture flourished in the Indus valley; first early civilization, circa 2600 BCE  
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VENERATED   To regard with respect  
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PANTHEON   An ideology  
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ARYANS(3)   Herding people; spoke an Indo-European language; settled into Indus Valley in large numbers, 2600 B.C.E  
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RIG VEDA   A collection of some 1,028 hymns dedicated to gods; complied between 1400 and 900 B.C.E.  
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INDRA   A God; chief deity of Aryans  
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RAJA   A leader of chiefdoms; governed in collaboration with a council of village elders  
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CASTE SYSTEM   Determined the places that individuals and groups occupied in society; status  
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VARNAS   The four castes in the Hindu caste system  
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BRAHMINS   A priests  
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KSHATRIYAS   Warriors and aristocrats  
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VAISHYAS   Cultivators, artisans, and merchants  
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SHUDRAS   Landless peasants and serfs  
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"LAW BOOK OF MANU"   A work that dealt with proper moral behavior and social relationships, including sex and gender relationships  
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BRAHMAN   Human beings that participate in a larger cosmic order and forms a small part of a universal soul (according to the Upanishads)  
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DOCTRINE   A document with beliefs or set of beliefs  
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KARMA   A cynical ideology designed to justify the social inequalities imposed by the caste system  
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DRAVIDIAN (2)   The people that lived in the Indus Valley before the Aryans;native civilization(circa 2600 BCE)  
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Political (HARAPPAN)   Unknown-unaccesible evidence  
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Interactions w/ environment (HARAPPAN)   *Agricultural -cultivated wheat and barley *Indus valley *Industry = textiles *Irrigation Canals  
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Religion (HARAPPAN)   *Polytheist nature gods; fertility goddess important *Priests in villages had high importance  
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Art & Architecture (HARAPPAN)   *citadel *large granary *roads *temples  
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Technology (HARAPPAN)   *ceramics *gate *steatite bead making  
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Economics (HARAPPAN)   *trade -materials, cultivation  
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Society (HARAPPAN)   *declined complex society of Dravidians  
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Political (ARYANS)   *Clan system *King and local rulers(king had to protect his subjects, property, defense and maintenance of peace) *Many City states *Patriarchal/Patrilineal *Subjected women to control *Guidance from men *Spoke Sanskrit  
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Interactions w/ environment (ARYANS)   *Nomadic people *Domesticated the horse *Herding *Cultivated (agriculture)  
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Religion (ARYANS)   *Indian gods still worshipped *Aryans brought new gods and Scriptures (Vedas) *Ritual/ethics sacrifices -rewards/offerings to gods  
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Art & Architecture (ARYANS)   *cities built from bricks *drain system *multileveled homes *iron tools  
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Technology (ARYANS)   *iron tools -advanced weaponry *chariots *Bow and arrow  
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Economics (ARYANS)   *Pastoral *Small self-sufficient agricultural communities *Iron Technology used for farm tools -increased food production (rice) *Weapons *Barter system (common)  
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Society (ARYANS)   *Caste system *nomadic *arrogance ^4 varnans -bramins (priests) -kshstriyas (warriors and aristocrats -vaishyas (cultivators, artisans, merchants) -shudras (landless peasants and serfs)  
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Political (DRAVIDIAN)   *City states *Governed by Priest Kings -democratic  
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Interactions w/ environment (DRAVIDIAN)   *agriculture/cultivated native lands  
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Religion (DRAVIDIAN)   *similar to aryans *reincarnation and circle of life  
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Art & Architecture (DRAVIDIAN)   *Temples w/ pyramid shaped towers -constructed from sandstone  
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Technology (DRAVIDIAN)   *iron tools -swords, spears, shields, bows, silambam  
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Economics (DRAVIDIAN)   *rich culture society  
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Society (DRAVIDIAN)   *4 varnans -bramins (priests) -kshstriyas (warriors and aristocrats -vaishyas (cultivators, artisans, merchants) -shudras (landless peasants and serfs)  
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Chronology   8000-7000 BCE -Beginnings of agriculture(South Asia)  
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Chronology   2500-2000B.C.E. -High point of Harappan society  
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Chronology   1900B.C.E. -Beginning of Harappan decline  
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Chronology   1500B.C.E. -Beginning of Aryan migration to India  
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Chronology   1500-500B.C.E. -Vedic age  
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Chronology   1400-900B.C.E. -Composition of the Rig Veda  
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Chronology   1000B.C.E. -Early Aryan migrations into the Ganges River valley  
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Chronology   1000B.C.E. -Emergence(varna distinctions)  
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Chronology   1000-500B.C.E. -Formation of regional kingdoms(northern India)  
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Chronology   800-400B.C.E. -Composition of the principal Upanishads  
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Chronology   750B.C.E. -Establishment of first Aryan cities in the Ganges valley  
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Chronology   500B.C.E -Early Aryan migrations to the Deccan Plateau  
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