The Aryans

Question 0

Aryans start _______ but they became ______ when they went to the Indus River valley an Ganges

Answer 0

Pastoral

Farmers

Question 1

1500 BC

Answer 1

Came over Hindu Kush mountains

Question 2

Aryana were not ____ but the _____ of modern Indians

Answer 2

Ancestors

Basis

Question 3

____ and ____ allow Aryans to change environment

Answer 3

Irrigation

Plow

Question 4

Clear the ____ around Ganges to make area good for ____

Answer 4

Jungle

Farming

Question 5

By 1000 BC

Answer 5

Aryans develop writing called Sanskrit

Question 6

Warriors

Answer 6

Horse drawn chariots

Question 7

The Vedas

Answer 7

Religious texts

Question 8

The Vedas duration

Answer 8

1200-600 BCE

Question 9

Hindu core beliefs

Answer 9

Hymns and poems
Religious prayers
Magical spells
Lists of gods and goddesses

Question 10

What were the Vedas written in?

Answer 10

Sanskrit

Question 11

Veda

Answer 11

Knowledge

Question 12

Four main Vedas

Answer 12

Rig Veda
Sama Veda
Yajur Veda
Athara Veda

Question 13

Rig Veda

Answer 13

Hymns of praise

Question 14

Sama Veda

Answer 14

Knowledge of the melodies

Question 15

Yajur Veda

Answer 15

Knowledge of the sacrificial formulas

Question 16

Athara Veda

Answer 16

Knowledge of the magic formulas

Question 17

What was writing for the Aryans associated with?

Answer 17

Upper or higher class

Question 18

What does Sanskrit mean?

What does this suggest?

Answer 18

Prepared
Pure
Sacred
Perfect
**This suggests that is was used by priests

Question 19

What does the Aryan arrival lead to?

Answer 19

Different social structure

Question 20

Was there social stratification in the Indus Valley?

Answer 20

No

Question 21

Describe Aryan India’s social stratification

Answer 21

Very stratified

Question 22

Levels of stratification called ____. All of them together called ________. “___” was the Indian word for caste

Answer 22

Castes
Caste system
Jati

Question 23

Were you born into Varnas?

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

____ big castes

Answer 24

4

Question 25

Brahman

Answer 25

Priests
Religious
Highest
Mouth

Question 26

Kshatriyas

Answer 26

Warriors

Arms

Question 27

Vaishyas

Answer 27

Commoners
Merchants
Farmers
Third 
Legs

Question 28

Sudras

Answer 28

Peasants and manual laborers
Lowest class
Feet

Question 29

Untouchables

Answer 29

So low they are not a part of the caste system, do jobs they seen as bad or dirty

Question 30

Social stratification

Answer 30

Way of keeping one race above another

Question 31

When the Aryan’s arrive who do they run into?

Answer 31

Dravidians and Nagas

Question 32

Aryans rules and caste system tried to

Answer 32

Keep people in different levels of society

Question 33

Marriage rules and caste system

Answer 33

Way of separating races, keeping one group in charge

Question 34

Varna means

Answer 34

Color

Question 35

The Vedic Age

Answer 35

The foundations for Hinduism were established