Chapter 3 - Eurasian Empires
Chapter 4 - Eurasian Cultural Traditions
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| 7818406633 | Upanishads | Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E. |  | 0 |
| 7818406634 | Vedas | The earliest religious texts of India, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down ca. 600 B.C.E. |  | 1 |
| 7818406641 | Bhagavad Gita | A great Hindu epic text, part of the much larger Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation. |  | 2 |
| 7818425673 | Dravidians | Lived in India before the Aryans took over. Then mixed, mingled, interacted, and intermarried with Aryans | 3 | |
| 7818427428 | Indra | Early Indian god associated with the Aryans; king of gods, associated w/ war and thunderbolts |  | 4 |
| 7818430593 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500BCE |  | 5 |
| 7818433269 | Subsistence | supporting oneself at a minimum level |  | 6 |
| 7818436786 | Harappans | Early brilliant Indian society centered in Indus River Valley |  | 7 |
| 7818443912 | Rig Veda | is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas. | 8 | |
| 7818455377 | Vedic Age | 9 | ||
| 7818466449 | Indo-European language | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia. People from around the the Black Sea and the Caspian sea; Between 2500 and 2000 BC, they migrated all over Eurasia; known as Hittites or Aryans, became ancestors of Romans and Greeks | 10 | |
| 7818469480 | Caste/caste system | rigid social ranking supported by Hinduism; determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society | 11 | |
| 7818472663 | Varna | Sanskrit word which means type, order, or class. The term refers to social classes in Hindu caste system (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra | 12 |
