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| 4748757581 | Materialism | A practice of the priestly class that came under criticism by many religious seers and dissenting philosophers. | 0 | |
| 4748760048 | Social Hierarchy | Created ritual divisions and restrictions on intermarriage between social groups. | 1 | |
| 4748765102 | Mauryas | First empire in India beginning in the late 4th century B.C.E. located in east India that was short lived. | 2 | |
| 4748767016 | Gupta | Powerful empire that arose in the early 4th century C.E. from northern India that reasserted brahmans' dominance. | 3 | |
| 4748782551 | Alexander the Great | Invaded India in 327--not conquering, but bringing India in contact with Hellenistic culture. | 4 | |
| 4748792594 | Isolated | India was forced to experience and adapt to other cultures, and China did not because of geographical and social phenomenon. | 5 | |
| 4748797951 | Himalayas | Northern mountain ranges that separated India | 6 | |
| 4748803902 | Monsoons | Rains crucial for farming, but sometimes unpredictable brining too much or too little rain. | 7 | |
| 4748805468 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who penetrated the Indian subcontinent becoming farmers and developed a series of oral epics called the Vedas. | 8 | |
| 4748808634 | Sanskrit | The literary language of the new culture. | 9 | |
| 4748809610 | Vedas | Composed by various priests that told stories about gods and proper standards of human behavior. | 10 | |
| 4748868245 | Indus and Ganges | Two major rivers in India that hosted great agricultural regions. | 11 | |
| 4748870211 | Varna | An Aryan social class based on the Aryans' belief that indigenous people were inferior. | 12 | |
| 4748905665 | Kshatriyas | Warrior, governing class. | 13 | |
| 4748907380 | Brahmans | Priestly class. | 14 | |
| 4748908342 | Vaisyas | Traders and farmers | 15 | |
| 4748909224 | Sudras | Common laborers | 16 | |
| 4748909227 | Untrouchables | Lowest class relegated to the worst, menial jobs. | 17 | |
| 4748913735 | Jati | A smaller subgroup within a caste with distinctive occupations tied to a social station by birth. | 18 | |
| 4748918992 | Rig-Veda | The first Aryan epic, and attributed the rise of the caste system to the gods. | 19 | |
| 4748921069 | Polythestic | Indian religion recognized multiple gods and goddesses who presided over fire, sun, death and other natural phenomenon. | 20 | |
| 4748921860 | Indra | The god of thunder and strength | 21 | |
| 4748935603 | Upanishads | Collection of works that became the basis for Hindu beliefs that expressed how nature was shaped by gods and a divine force. | 22 | |
| 4748988025 | Chandragupta Maurya | Soldier, who in 322 B.C.E. became the first leader of the Mauryan Dynasty. | 23 | |
| 4748995786 | Autocratic | A style of governing that relies heavily on a ruler's personal and military power. | 24 | |
| 4748997256 | Ashoka | Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who greatly expanded Indian territory and ultimately converted to Buddhism. | 25 | |
| 4749001097 | Dharma | An ethical guide based on laws of moral consequences. | 26 | |
| 4749008504 | Kanishka | Great Kushnan king who invaded India from the NW after the fall of the Mauryan Dynasty. | 27 | |
| 4749034120 | Kautilya | Political advisor to Chnadragupta whose work the Arthashastra told leaders how to keep power similar to Legalism in China. | 28 |
