Chapter 3 Section 1 Review

Children were important because

These two things made life for Aryan farmers simpler

Like in the past civilizations that we have studied, priests prayed with who for good things

Which of the 3 chief gods is the Preserver?

Reincarnation is the belief that the individual soul is reborn in diff. forms after death.

How does one achieve oneness with Brahman?

The varnas ranked people from low to high.

The cities were advanced with public wells, bathrooms, trash chutes, and waste drainage systems

What group would depend on he rains of the monsoons?

Which of the 3 chief gods is the Destroyer?

Siddhartha rejected the

The rulers in India based their ruling on ___ assistance.

What two religions began in India?

Which of the 3 chief gods is the Creator?

Religion and political power were not closely linked in India.

How the Indus Valley civilization ended has

The family unit in India did not care about the grandparents and kicked them out the streets

What was the system called that showed where you were in society and what you could do?

Nirvana is the lowest reality.

The divine law is called the

The family was matriarchal.

The two ruins of the two cities where civilization flourished were named

The writing in the Indus Valley, in the beginning, were

The early writings were known as the Zend Avesta.

The form of ultimate reality was called Vesta.

A group if Indo-European speaking nomadic people moved into India, and they were called the

The Sudras were the priestly class.

The Harappan economy was based on?

Life in ancient India was based on?

India is shaped like a?

Later the Aryans began to use Sanskrit for writing purposes.

Siddhartha Gautama is known as

Most buildings in the cities were constructed of

The Aryans had a strong ___ tradition

What does divine assistance mean?

This river creates 1 of the 2 major river valleys in India.

Your actions as a person affects your

The ______ is the highest mountain range in the world.

As in Mesopotamia and Egypt, India emerged in

This is the primary feature of India's climate.