Ancient India Vocabulary

What is a large part of a continent called?

• country

• subcontinent

• continent

• plateau

What do you call a wind pattern that influences the climate and leads to wet and dry seasons?

• monsoon

• tsunami

• tornado

• gust

Name of India’s first civilization that was located along the Indus River.

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Harappa

One of the largest Harappan cities in India.

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Harappa

A collection of religious poems, myths, and hymns that influenced Hinduism. 

• Koran

• Torah

• Bible

• Vedas

A group from Central Asia who supposedly moved into India and established Vedic society.

• Indians

• Egyptians

• Aryans

• Mesopotamians

Indo-Aryan language

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Chinese

• Sanskrit

A social order that has determined one’s place in Indian society

• Caste system

• Pyramid system

• Hierarchy system

A major world religion that developed in India from the Vedas

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Christianity

• Judaism

The rebirth of one’s soul

• reincarnation

• karma

• dharma

• vedas