India vocab

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  1. 2. united parts of India, Afghanistan, and Asia into India's first empire
  2. 7. A large landmass that is smaller than a continent
  3. 9. a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land
  4. 12. lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society
  5. 14. The priest varna of the caste system
  6. 15. another name for the Untouchables
  7. 18. Caste made up of farmers, craftspeople, and traders
  8. 19. India's third empire; its leaders were Muslim
  9. 22. the world's tallest mountain, located in the Himalayas
  10. 23. social groups described in the Vedas that were the basis of the Caste system
  11. 26. seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons
  12. 28. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
  13. 29. The warrior and ruler varna of the caste system
  14. 31. India's second empire that saw important advances in math, like the concept of 'zero'
  15. 32. A Hindu social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life
Down
  1. 1. social groups determined by birth and associated with specific occupations
  2. 3. A religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation
  3. 4. nomads from central Asia who migrated to Indus River Valley and settled there after the Harappans
  4. 5. A group of writings sacred in Hinduism that were teachers' and students' reflections on the Vedas
  5. 6. divide into parts; Great Britain had to do this with India and Pakistan
  6. 8. triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
  7. 10. Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC founded by Siddartha Gautama
  8. 11. Indus Valley city much like Harappa; laid out in a grid pattern with irrigation and sewer system.
  9. 13. a large ancient city in present day Pakistan that the Indus civilization is named for
  10. 16. unwritten rules that people in a society know that they are required to follow
  11. 17. River located in India that flows from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal and is considered sacred to Hindus
  12. 20. a British trading company that set up large, profitable trading post colonies in India
  13. 21. Collections of hymns, songs, prayers, and rituals honoring the various gods of the Aryans
  14. 24. Caste made up of the peasants and laborers
  15. 25. leaders of Aryan villages in India
  16. 27. the most important language of ancient India
  17. 30. A river in Pakistan with a wide fertile plain in which the Indian subcontinent's first civilization developed