India Vocabulary Quiz

subcontinent

• extremely poor

• a large landmass that is smaller than a continent

  
  

• the leader of an Aryan tribe

• having little to no rain; hot and dry climate

Himalaya

•  one of the first major settlements in ancient India that became a center of the Indus valley civilization.

  
  

• a place to store grain

• a fortress built to protect a city

• the highest mountains in the world: they separate India from China

Ganges River

• a river that flows south of the Himalaya into the Indian Ocean

  
  

• written language that developed in ancient India

• a river that flows from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea

  
  

• the social class system of India: once born

  into a caste you could not change.

  
  

Indus River

• extremely poor

• a river that flows south of the Himalaya into the Indian Ocean

  
  

• thousands of jati are grouped together into one of four classes called

       varnas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras)

  
  

• a river that flows from the Himalayas to the 

  Arabian Sea

  
  

monsoons

• written language that developed in ancient India

• a strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer and cold, dry air in the winter

  
  

• having little to no rain; hot and dry climate

• a place to store grain

Sanskrit

• extremely poor

• the social class system of India: once born into a caste you could not change

  
  

• the Indian word for caste. It dictates what job you will have and who you can marry, even who you can eat and drink with

• written language that developed in ancient India

Raja

• leader of the Aryan tribe

• one of the first major settlements in ancient India that became a center of the Indus valley civilization

  
  

•  having little to no rain; hot and dry climate

• a large landmass that is smaller than a continent

plateau

• a large landmass that is smaller than a continent

• having little to no rain; hot and dry climate

• people that performed dirty work like trash collecting, skinning animals

       or handling dead bodies. They could not live within the city.

  
  

• a flat area of land that is elevated or raised above the land around it

  
  

Caste System

• a fortress built to protect a city

• the Indian word for caste. It dictates what job you will have and who you can marry, even who you can eat and drink with

• the social class system of India: once born

  into a caste you could not change

  
  

•  written language that developed in ancient India

poverty

• extremely poor

• a place to store grain

• the highest mountains in the world: they separate India from China

• a fortress built to protect a city