Ancient India Vocabulary

A seasonal wind that causes wet and dry seasons.

• Peninsula

• Natural Resources

• Sanskrit

• Monsoon

The river where the Indus civilization settled along.

• Tigrus and Euphrates

• Indus River

• Nile Rivers

• 
  Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal

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

• 
  Christianity

• 
  Polytheism

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

The first language of Ancient India.

• 
  Sanskrit

• 
  Hieroglyphs

• 
  English

• Cuneiform

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

• Social Pyramid

• 
  Social Hierarchy

• 
  Social System

• Caste System

A nomadic group that invaded India and took control.

• Hindu

• Temples

• Aryans

• Missionary

Someone belonging to the untouchables, or outcastes, within the caste system.

• Dalit

• Karma

• Nirvana

• Meditation

the consequences of how a person lives; if you live a good life, you have good karma

• Monsoon

• Karma

• Deity

• Polytheistic

a prince in ancient India who led the Indo-European tribes

• President

• Prince

• Karma

• Raja

large mass of land; part of a continent but separate because of physical features like high mountains

• Subcontinent

• Continent

• Sanskrit

• Stupa