Ancient India Vocab Quiz

A seasonal wind that causes wet and dry seasons.

• Natural Resources

• Monsoon

• Peninsula

• Sanskrit

The rivers where the Indus civilization settled along.

• Tigrus and Euphrates

• Nile Rivers

• Indus and Ganges River

• Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal

An area of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• An island

• A pier

• A river bank

• A peninsula

Resources found in nature and used for trading with civilizations who didn't have access to them.

• Oil and gas

• minerals

• natural resources

• rocks and coal

A major religion of India and still practiced in India today.

• Hinduism

• polytheism

• Christianity

• Buddhism

The first language of Ancient India.

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

• hieroglyphs

• English

The social heirarchy of India created by the Aryan that divided Indian society into groups based on a person's birth, wealth, or occupation.

• Social Hierarchy

• Social Pyramid

• Social System

• Caste System

A nomiadic group that invaded India and took control.

• Aryans

• Hindu

• Indian

• Missionary

People who work to spread their religious beliefs.

• Hinduism

• Church groups

• Missionaries

• Cultural Diffusion

A time period of prosperity (wealth), peace, and progress (expansion and growth) during the Gupta Empire.

• Silver Age

• Golden Age

• Bronze Age

• Black Age