India and Persia

a large region separated by water from other land areas

• monsoon

• subcontinent

• sudra

• plateau

the rainy season

• monsoon season

• subsistence farming

• brahmin

• sudra

a type of farming in which people grow food just for their family's use

• subsistence farming

• share cropping

• surplus

• caste

a priest or a teacher; the highest position in Aryan society

• sudra

• Buddha

• brahmin

• untouchables

a serf; the lowest position in Aryan society

• brahmin

• sudra

• Buddha

• Untouchables

the process in which a person goes from one life to the next life

• enlightenment

• Hinduism

• caste

• reincarnation

a lifelong social group into which a person is born

• brahmin

• sudra

• caste

• reincarnation

a way of clearing the mind

• meditation

• reincarnation

• enlightenment

• Four Noble Truths

a state of pure goodness

• meditation

• Four Noble Truths

• enlightenment

• brahmin

This theory suggests that the Earth is made of several slowly moving plates

• Plate-tectonics Theory

• Theory of Universal Gravitation

• Big Bang Theory

• Theory of Evolution