Ancient India (OSA WH)

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  1. 1. Farmers, craftspeople, and traders of Ancient India.
  2. 4. Siddhartha Gautama became known as this, which means “enlightened one.”
  3. 6. A Buddhist shrine
  4. 7. The writing of Ancient India.
  5. 9. Archaeologists named this city "hill of the dead"
  6. 11. Doctors in Ancient India learned how to rebuild noses through this type of surgery.
  7. 15. During this Empire, the concept of zero was created, as well as advances in medicine, philosophy, literature
  8. 16. While containing rulers, land owners, and warriors, this was only the second highest class of Ancient India.
  9. 19. This system established the Social Pyramid of Ancient India.
  10. 20. Ancient Indian cities, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, are located in what is now...
  11. 23. One of the World's Longest Literary works at 1.8 million words!
  12. 24. The Indian people believed in many gods, known as this.
  13. 27. The Ancient Indians made many advancements in science, including the ability to predict these in regards to the sun and moon!
  14. 30. Also known as the Dalits, or the Untouchables, this the lowest class of Ancient India. So low, that it doesn't even count as a class of people!
  15. 32. This provided natural protection from northern invasions.
  16. 33. Credited with inventing the number zero.
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  1. 2. Due to how India is separated from the rest of Asia, it is often called this geographically
  2. 3. These were priests of Ancient India, the highest class.
  3. 5. The people of the Indus River Civilization disappeared due to three possible reasons: a great flood, enemy invasion, or this.
  4. 8. The main river in Ancient India.
  5. 10. The preserver god who maintains life.
  6. 12. Around 1500 BC, this group of nomadic warrior-herders crossed the narrow Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains and invaded the Indus Valley culture
  7. 13. This civilization developed along the Indus River.
  8. 14. positive or negative points you earn in life that allows you to move up and down the social pyramid
  9. 17. We know about Brahmanism because of Aryan books (holy writings) that record their beliefs.
  10. 18. The creator god who brings forth life.
  11. 21. A policy used by Mahatma Ghandi and then Martin Luther King Jr., this means non-violence and goes back to Jainism
  12. 22. The ideal ruler.
  13. 25. This religion, the major religion of India, was a mixture of Aryan (Brahmanism) and Indus Valley beliefs.
  14. 26. Peasants and manual labors, one of the lowest classes in Ancient India.
  15. 28. The destroyer god who allows for new life to be created.
  16. 29. Ancient Indians were Pioneers of this, the Indians created tools and weapons by mixing iron and other metals together.
  17. 31. An Indian leader who is primarily responsible for spreading Buddhism across Asia