Indus Valley Vocabulary Review

A plan or thought for the design of a city

• Urban Planning

• Subcontinent

• Hinduism

• Caste System

The first language of Ancient India

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

• English

The rivers where the Indus Civilization settled along

• Tigris & Euphrates

• Indus & Ganges

• Mississippi & Missouri

• Amazon & Nile

A large land area isolated from the rest of the continent

• Peninsula

• Subcontinent

• Island

• Plateau

One of the centers of the Indus Civilization that flourished from 2500 to 1700 BCE

• Ciaro

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Ur

• Harappa

A seasonal wind that causes wet & dry seasons

• Monsoons

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Flood

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

• Caste System

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Hinduism

• Peninsula

One of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization

• Harappa

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Tuscaloosa

• Kissimmee

An area of land surrounded by water on three sides

• Island

• Continent

• Peninsula

• Lagoon

The major religion of India. Still practiced in India today

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• Voodoo

• Hinduism