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ashleycolerogers on October 27, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 indus river | gives india it's name; mighty river; carries melting snow from mountains to plains making agriculture possible |
| ganges river | mighty river; carried melting snow from mountains to plains making agriculture possible |
| aryans | nomadic people; loved food drink music chariot races and dice games; valued cattle; gave up nomadic ways to settle in villages; grew crops and raised cattle |
| what did aryans make tools from? | iron such as iron axes & weapons |
| who were the aryan tribes lead by? | chief rajahs |
| where did the aryans migrate from? | russia |
| brahmins | aryan priests |
| kshatriyas | aryan warriors |
| vaisyas | herders farmers artisans and merchants |
| sudras | lowest level of society people with little or no aryan heritage; farmworkers, servants and other laborers |
| dravidians | sudas; indian people from the deccan with different languages and traditions the aryans conquered |
| deities | gods |
| sanskrit | writing that priests used to write sacred texts |
| who founded jainism | mahavira |
| what is jainism | a religion that grew out of hindu tranditions |
| what idea did mahavira reject? | that brahmin priests alone could perform certain sacred rites |
| what things did jainism emphasize? | meditation self denial and extreme form of ahimsa |
| what did jainism people carry with them? | brooms and they swept in front of feet so as to not kill insects or anything |
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