Chapter 8 India - Section 1 Quiz

What caste are unskilled laborers and servants a part of?

What eventually became one of the the major languages in India?

The first epic is about what?

What religion is a complex system of deities and is based on epics and the Vedas?

The Aryans moved southeast into what area?

What is the priest caste called?

Aryans were what?

What is the one eternal spirit called?

What is the Arjuna?

Jainism is based on?

Women were supposed to be what?

Did the Aryans originally settle down or were they nomadic?

The Pariahs caste consisted of what people?

What outlines Dharma?

What was the second epic about?

What is the name for the smaller groups within each Varna?

What was believed to help with Upanishad?

What were the leaders of Aryan tribes called?

Who dominated the Aryan world?

Who were the warriors that invaded the Hindu Kush mountains?

What is Ahimsa?

What “age” is the Indian history part of?

What is the social system the Aryans brought to India called?

What told of a Universal Spirit present within all life?

Where did the idea of reincarnation come from?

What was Mahabharata?

What kind of poems were recited by the Aryan warrior-herders?

What does dharma mean?

When one’s Dharma is satisfied, one gains good _____

What were the “Books of Knowledge” called?

In what language were the Vedas originally written?

What is the idea of a soul passing from life to life?

Characters in epics can be all EXCEPT…