Culture, Race, and Gender

Aryans and Caste System

In this lesson you will learn how Ancient Indians developed a strict social system of upper and lower classes.

After Harappans disappeared...

• Aryans came to India

• They spoke a language called Sanskrit

• Their religion is called Hindu-ism

• Their most important book was called The Vedas

Multiple Choice

Aryan religion is called...

• Christianiity

• Hinduism

Sanskrit is no longer spoken

The Vedas

• Holy books (Hindu bible)

• Rules and laws

• Poems and Songs

• Mentions a Class system=Caste System

Multiple Choice

The books of the Hindu religion are called...

• Vedas

• Aryans

• Hindus

Everyone has a place in the Hindu caste system

Multiple Choice

There are _____ main castes (social clsses) in India.

• 2

• 3

• 4

Brahmins:

UPPER CLASS

Highly Respected

• Priests

• Teachers

• Scholars

Multiple Choice

Can a farmer be a Brahmin?

• YES

• NO

Kshatriya

• Rulers

• Warriors (army)

Multiple Choice

Can a SOLDIER be a kshatriya?

• YES

• NO

Vaisyas

• Farm-owners

• Land-owners

• Merchants...business-owners

• Provide for the upper class

Multiple Choice

Can a TEACHER be a VASIYA?

• YES

• NO

Sudras

• Lowest Caste

• Service-providers and workers

• Provide for the upper class

Multiple Choice

Can a SUDRA be a waiter?

• YES

• NO

Untouchables

• Not even part of the caste system

• Do the dirty jobs in society

• Clean animal waste

• Other castes should not touch them

Poll

Would you want to be an Untouchable?

• YES

• NO

Good things about Caste System

• Everyone has a place in society

• Everyone helps each other

• Following caste system=good karma

Bad Things About Caste System

• People in different castes could not marry or be friends

• Immigrants into India were automatically in lowest caste

• Indians cannot change castes

• No freedom to choose

People in India protesting caste system

Poll

Would you like there to be a caste system in America?

• YES

• NO

Open Ended

Why did you say yes or no to a caste system?

APARTHEID

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APARTHEID

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LEARNING TARGET

• WHAT? WE WILL DESCRIBE AND ANALYZE THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA.

• HOW? WE WILL COMPLETE THE QUIZZIZ LESSON.

• WHY? IT WILL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE REGION.

Multiple Choice

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF APARTHEID?

• TO BRING IN COMMUNISM

• TO SEPERATE THE RACES GIVING THE WHITES AN ADVANTAGE

• TO PREVENT WARS

Multiple Choice

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE POLITICAL PARTY IN SOUTH AFRICA THAT CREATED THE APARTHEID SYSTEM?

• REPUBLICAN

• NATIONAL

• ANC

• DEMOCRAT

Open Ended

Give three examples of what life was like for African people under Apartheid. (three sentences).

Multiple Select

Click on all the answers that resisted Apartheid.

• African National Congress

• Nelson Mandela

• Robben Island

• National Party

Open Ended

How did Apartheid come to an end? (Answer in three sentences)

CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA

WHITES LEAVING THE COUNTRY

Apartheid

By Austin Spain

Multiple Choice

What was Apartheid?

• Racial Segregation in America

• Racial Segregation in South Africa

• Voting Rights for Africans

• Policy of Desegregation in South Africa

Multiple Choice

Who were the Afrikaners, or Boers?

• Descendants of original Dutch settlers

• British Imperialists

• Native Africans

• Wild animals

Multiple Choice

What was found in South Africa that further intensified the fighting?

• Coal

• Gold

• Diamonds

• Water

Multiple Choice

Who won the Boer War?

• Boers

• Afrikaners

• America

• British

Open Ended

What does "Indigenous" mean?

Multiple Choice

What was the literal meaning of apartheid?

• Apartness

• Openess

• Together

• Airplane

Open Ended

List 3 things required of or restricted from black South Africans.

Multiple Choice

Which statement about Nelson Mandela is not true?

• Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for treason.

• Mandela became a symbol of the injustice of the apartheid system.

• Mandela was never released from prison.

• Mandela became president of South Africa.

Culture

Culture is a total way of life for a group of people who share a common language, beliefs, and customs

Multiple Choice

What is culture? 

• A shared way of life
• The spread of ideas
• a short well known expression 
• a custom prohibiting or restricting a practice 

Multiple Choice

What do you call something passed down from generation to generation?

• Art
• Literature
• Tradition
• Culture

Multiple Choice

three important pieces of any culture are

• language, values, and religion
• natural resources, climate, & landforms
• economy, population, & writing
• technology, transportation, & economy

Multiple Choice

People's occupations, their behaviors, and their beliefs are all part of their

• Government
• Culture
• Climate
• Technology

Multiple Choice

A total way of life for a group of people who share a common language, customs, and beliefs

• Family
• Civilization
• Culture
• Ethics

Multiple Choice

A blue print for living that helps a group of people meet their basic human needs

• Language
• Culture
• Technology
• Agriculture

Multiple Choice

Any changes made to a groups environment

• Cultural Landscape
• Cultural Trait
• Social Structure
• Ethics

Multiple Choice

A particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things

• Cultural Landscape
• Cultural Trait
• Social Structure
• Ethics

Multiple Choice

The tools and the skills necessary to use those tools

• Language
• Culture
• Technology
• Agriculture

Multiple Choice

How many stages do geographers say early cultures go through

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four

Multiple Choice

The growing of crops and the raising of livestock (animals)

• Language
• Culture
• Technology
• Agriculture

Multiple Choice

A behavior that is considered normal in a particular society

• Value

• Technology

• Culture Trait

• Norm