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| 32377636 | aryans | moved south to area between himalayas and ganges, then to the deccan plateau | 0 | |
| 32377637 | caste | social class of hereditary and usually unchangable status (term used by portuguese) | 1 | |
| 32377638 | brahmin | represented purusha's mouth | 2 | |
| 32377639 | brahmin | priests and scholars | 3 | |
| 32377640 | brahmin | top varna | 4 | |
| 32377641 | kshatriya | warriors and government officials | 5 | |
| 32377642 | kshatriya | second highest varna | 6 | |
| 32377643 | kshatriya | represents purusha's arms | 7 | |
| 32377644 | vaishya | represents purusha's thighs | 8 | |
| 32377645 | vaishya | second lowest varna | 9 | |
| 32377646 | vaishya | landowners,merchants,and artisans | 10 | |
| 32377647 | shudra | represent purushas feet | 11 | |
| 32377648 | shudra | peasants and laborers | 12 | |
| 32377649 | shudra | lowest varna | 13 | |
| 32377650 | varna | sanskrit word meaning colour used by aryans to refer to social classes | 14 | |
| 32377651 | jati | further subdivisions of castes | 15 | |
| 32377652 | vedas | religious texts passed down from generation to generation of aryans | 16 | |
| 32377653 | rig veda | most important veda | 17 | |
| 32377654 | upanishads | texts speaking of a universal, eternal, and unchanging spirit | 18 | |
| 32377655 | brahman | universal and unchanging spirit | 19 | |
| 32377656 | atman | human spirit | 20 | |
| 32377657 | hinduism | religion of most people today in indian subcontinent | 21 | |
| 32377658 | buddhism | religion founded by siddhartha gautma | 22 | |
| 32377659 | siddhartha gautma | founded buddhism | 23 | |
| 32377660 | buddha | "the enlightened one" | 24 | |
| 32377661 | ashoka | greatest ruler of the mauryan dynasty, converted to buddhism | 25 | |
| 32377662 | mauryan dynasty | larger, farther spreading indian dynasty | 26 | |
| 32377663 | gupta empire | smaller, less spreading empire of india, less bureaucracy, more autonomy | 27 | |
| 32377664 | silk road | major trade route extending from xi'an to tarim basin | 28 | |
| 32377665 | stirrup | technology invented in afghanistan, spread along silk road | 29 | |
| 32377666 | lateen sail | roughly triangular sail with squared off points | 30 | |
| 32377667 | indian ocean maritime system | SE china to SE asia,SE asia to east india, west india to africa and red sea | 31 | |
| 32377668 | sahara trade routes | trade routes established across sahara desert | 32 | |
| 32377669 | camels | main change allowing trade over sahara | 33 | |
| 32377670 | the huns | agressive nomads who expanded first into china then later into all over asia and mesopotamia | 34 | |
| 32377671 | attila | leader of the huns | 35 | |
| 32377672 | germanic people | displaced by huns and inspired to make advances on rome bby the huns successful attacks on rome. these people eventually moved west into western europe to establish kingdoms tyhat would later become europena countries. | 36 | |
| 32377673 | bantu | these people were displaced by desertification in the sahara and spread their ideas of iron metallurgy, agriculture, and language all over subsaharan africa | 37 | |
| 32377674 | polynesians | these people settled almost every habitable island in the pacific ocean. there are no written records of these people | 38 | |
| 32377675 | polynesians | these people used boats made of two canoes carrying a platform and large triangular sails | 39 | |
| 32377676 | the fall of the great empires | the following contributed to this: attacks by nomadic groups, serious internal problems, and problems of interdependence | 40 | |
| 32377677 | christianity | the main religiion of rome at the time of its collapse, and part of the reason the empire vanished entirely instead of simply losing its political stability. | 41 |
