6th Chapter 15 Vocabulary

1. brings heavy rains and causing the Indus River to overflow

• Bay of Bengal
• Indian Ocean
• Indus River
• monsoon winds

2. farm workers, servants, other unskilled workers.

• spices
• Vaisyas
• Sudras
• Vedas

3, nomadic herders who domesticated horses and could move across vast areas of land quickly and settled in northern India.

• Brahmin
• Dalits: The Untouchables
• Harappa
• Aryans

4. the language of the Vedic Age

• bricks
• sanitation
• Sanskrit
• Kshatriyas

5, priest and religious teachers

• Dalits: The Untouchables
• Harappa
• Brahmin
• Aryans

6, are flat thin red colored burnt clay

• spices
• Sanskrit
• bricks
• Sudras

7. northwest boundary of India and includes 9 of the tallest mountain pecks in the world.

• Hindu Kush Mountains
• Indian Ocean
• Harappan Civilization
• Himalayan Mountains

8. the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent

• Hindu Kush Mountains
• Harappan Civilization
• Himalayan Mountains
• Ganges River Valley

9. an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavor food

• bricks
• Sudras
• Vaisyas
• spices

10. the collection, processing, and recycling or deposition of the waste materials of human society

• Arabian Sea
• Indian Ocean
• sanitation
• subcontinent