Vocabulary Week 15

Caste System

A division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race.*Category*: Culture

Planned CityThe careful planning of a community/city from its inception (beginning).

*Category*: Culture

HarappaAn city in the Ancient Indus River Valley that is also an example of a planned city.

*Category*: Culture

Mohenjo-DaroAncient city on the bank of the Indus River, in present-day southern Pakistan.

*Category*: Culture

KalibanganAncient city of the Indus River Valley civilization located in northwestern part of present day India.

*Category*: Culture

SanskritAn ancient language that is the classical language of India and of Hinduism

*Category*: Culture

AryanName formerly given to prehistoric people who settled in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.*Category*: Culture

Vedasany of four collections of hymns, prayers, that make up the earliest Hindu sacred writings.

*Category*: Culture

BrahminA Hindu of the highest caste traditionally assigned to the priesthood.

*Category*: Culture

UntouchableA member of a segregated hereditary group in India having, in traditional Hindu belief, the quality of defiling by contact a member of a higher caste

*Category*: Culture

HinduismThe dominant religion of India that emphasizes dharma with its resulting ritual and social observances.

*Category*: Culture

BuddhismA religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Gautama Buddha.

*Category*: Culture