India test review

Aryans were:

• nomadic people who entered the Indus Valley around 1500 BCE and mixed with the people, invented farm tools and the Sanskrit language

• settled with agriculture about 2000 BCE in the Indus valley and raised goats

• very isolated from the Indus Valley people

• warlike and violent and did little but hunt and gather

The language family that belongs to the people of India is;

• Indo-European

• European-Indius

• Asian-European

• West and Eastern Asian-group

These people introduced farming techniques, the Sanskrit language, and the social class system or varnas.

• The Indo-Europeans

• The Indus Valleyans

• The Aryans

• The Assyrians

The Varnas were the original social class structure that later became subdivided into many, many levels called:

• The Hindu loyal levels

• the social club

• The jati or caste system

• the system of untouchables

As far as the Indus people went, the Aryans:

• Allowed them to worship as the pleased, but remained apart

• Influenced them greatly and mixed with them

• Had their own unique customs and stayed quite apart

• Worked together in unity, but remained their own unique sect

To the North of the Indus Valley, were protective:

• deserts

• rivers

• mountains

• valleys

This person became a Buddhist and made many Stupas, while allowing the people to stay Hindus if they wanted to.

• Buddha

• Siddhartha Gautama

• Ashoka or Asoka

• Chandragupta Maurya

This dynasty or empire united much of India after the Mauryan empire failed:

• The Chandra

• The Samudra

• The Gupta

• The Chandragupta

The very first Empire of the Indus Valley people

• The Mauryan Empire

• The Gupta Empire

• The Chandragupta Empire

• The Samudra Empire

Trading goods with other civilizations

• was how the Mauryans succeeded

• was how the Gupta Empire flourished, becoming prosperous and wealthy

• was how the Gupta Empire declined

• was how diseases that polluted the Ganges river were spread