Origins of Hindu India

The lowest varna in Indian society comprised of peasants or servants is the

• Kshatriyas.

• Sudras.

• Untouchables

• Vaisyas

The social group in Indian society comprised of commoners who are merchants and farmers is called the

• Brahmins.

• Kshatriyas

• Vaisyas.

• Sudras.

Vedic Aryans viewed a proper, ordered society as made up of four groups, which they called:

• Vedas

• Brahman

• Varnas

• Society

Brahmins:

• mouth: teach,advice

• arms;defend,protect

• legs; supply needs

• warriors and landowners

Which of the following developed because most Indians could not relate to the idea of Brahman?

• human-like gods

• the atma

• the Jati

• Sanskrit

Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer were

• the chief Hindu gods.

• Untouchables.

• writers of the Vedas.

• Brahmins.

Kshatriyas were:

• those settle on soils

• holders of authority

• hindu gods

• priests

Four types of yogas which Hindus practice to achieve spiritual union are the path of knowledge, the path of love, the path of work, and the path of

• meditatation.

• dharma.

• jati

• reincarnation.

Hindus strive to leave behind the cycle of earthly life and achieve unity with a form of ultimate reality called

• Shiva.

• Brahman.

• Krishna.

• Vishnu

In Indian society, a person's caste determined

• whether a person would be a Hindu or a Buddhist.

• how a person would be reincarnated.

• which god or goddess a person could worship.

• what type of job a person could have and who the person could marry.