History of Ancient India Vocabulary

The most important language of Ancient India

• fortress

• Sanskrit

• Vedas

• alloys

People who migrated from around the Caspian Sea to the Indus River Valley after the Harappan Civilization.

• Guptas

• Harappans

• Aryans

• mercenaries

effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul

• mercenaries

• reincarnation

• meditation

• karma

people of the ancient civilization of Harappa

• Aryans

• Harappans

• Mohenjo Daro

• Guptas

Dynasty in India around 320 AD where India became prosperous

• Guptas

• Aryans

• Pakistan

• Harappans

the division of Indian society into groups based on birth or occupation

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Brahmins

• caste system

a Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are reborn and reborn many times, each time into a new body

• reincarnation

• meditation

• inoculation

• karma

a mixture of two or more metals

• inoculation

• metallurgy

• alloys

• astronomy

Religion based on Mahariva's teachings

Principles: injure no life, tell the truth, do not steal, and own no land

Practiced nonviolence

• Buddhism

• Jainism

• Hinduism

• Vedas

the study of stars and planets

• astronomy

• inocluation

• metallurgy

• alloys