Hinduism

Which theory is used to explain the origins of the Aryan Peoples?

• They came from a region Northwest of India and crossed over the mountains into the Indus River Valley before 2000 b.c.

• They originated within India itself

• They originated in Anatolia and mograted east into the indus River Valley around 1800 b.c.

• They came from the Tibetan Plateau and began to settle India's Ganges Plain around 2500 b.c.

Which statement best identifies the "untouchables"?

• people who lived outside of India's caste system because their work was thought to be impure

• people who lived at the top of India's Caste System- Kings and Queens who were "too pure" to touch

• foreigners who were not a part of Indian culture or religion- they could be" touched" or included in any formal events

Which statement best identifies Hinduism?

• A collection of religious beliefs that developed slowly over a thousand years in India

• religion founded by "the Guru" around 1000 b.c. whose teachings were recorded in the Vedas

• a religion formed by the blending of Buddhism and Jainism in India around 500 b.c.

Kshatriyas

• were at the bottom

• were weak

• warriors who ran the government and the army

• were at the very top

Brahmins

• were the priests

• were not powerful

• were at the bottom

• had no rights

Vaisyas

• were at the top

• were priests

• were craftspeople

• were untouchables

The manual laborers

• Kshatriyas

• Sudras

• gurus

• Vaisyas

The four Varnas later became subdivided into

• castes or tribes

• tribes

• castes or jati

• subsocial groups of warriors

lowest level of society, not part of the jati system

• intolerables

• unreachables

• untouchables

• impossibles

What was the holiest book of the Aryans?

• Bible

• Vedas

• Koran