DJHS -8th Grade World History Ancient India
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swalden on September 28, 2011
Subjects:
history, ancient india, world history, djhs
Description:
Dauphin Junior High school, 8th grade world history - Chapter 6 ancient India
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ganges & Indus | Most important rivers in India |
| Asoka | considered to be the Mauryan dynasty's greatest king |
| 35,000 | population of ancient Indian cities |
| Pataliputra | capital city |
| Chandragupta | founded India's first empire |
| pilgrams | used trade routes to travel to religious shrines |
| Indo-Europeans | Aryans derived from this group |
| caste | social group one is born into |
| raja | prince |
| Himalayas | mountian range that separated India from the rest of Asia |
| monsoons | strong winds that blow one direction in the winter and the opposite in the summer |
| sanskrit | written language developed by the Aryans |
| Kshtriyas | warriors and rulers |
| Vaisyas | common people |
| Guru | teacher of upper caste boys |
| centralized government | government run from a capital city |
| Polagamy | a man could take another wife if they had no children |
| Gupta | When there was a golden age in India |
| Aryans | created the caste system. Nomadic people that conquered Harappans and most of India |
| caste system | determined a person's job, social group, and marriage |
| Alexander the Great | conquered India, but left suddenly which led to India's first empire. |
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