| A | B |
|---|
| irrigation | to bring water from rivers and lakes onto land to water crops |
| Hinduism | religion where people pray to many gods |
| caste system | classification of people into different categories and levels |
| examples of castes | priests, fighters, farmers, slaves |
| Indus River | important body of water used for irrigation |
| outcastes | people who where not in any caste at all and had the worst jobs |
| reborn | to be born again; in Hinduism reincarnation |
| Buddhism | a religon where people do not care about owning things |
| Buddha | a man from India who taught that people must be kind to each other |
| monks | priests of the Buddhist religon |
| Ancient India | a large country that was in southern Asia |
| the Aryans | a group of people who changed India in four important ways |
| Himalayas | very tall mountains that separate India from the rest of Asia |
| ideas from the ancient Indians people still use today | numbers, Hinduism, Buddhism, chess |
| the Persians | people who conquered the Aryans |
| ideas of the Aryans that changed India | family life was important; a family's wealth was based on its number of cows |
| Hindus | people who believe in Hinduism |
| Pakistan | a country that surrounds the Indus River; once a part of India |
| worst | the superlative of 'bad' |
| to rule | to control or to dominate |
