Download Chapter 4, Section 1 Key Terms: Use pages 106 – 111 in your

Chapter 4, Section 1
Key Terms:
Use pages 106 – 111 in your textbook to complete the following statements.
1.
The ____________________________ separates India from the rest of Asia.
2.
India is considered to be a _____________________, or a large piece of land that
________________ ______________ from a continent.
3. The _____________________ of the region kept the people of India from having much contact with other
peoples.
4. What geographic features separate India from the rest of the world?
a. __________________________________________
b. __________________________________________
c. __________________________________________
d. __________________________________________
5.
India’s climate is heavily controlled by _____________________, or _______________
__________________.
6. The ___________________ monsoon blows from northeast to southwest, bringing _______________ air.
7. The ___________________ monsoon blows from the southwest and brings heavy __________________.
Complete the chart:
Cause
Effect
Late or weak summer monsoons
8.
9.
Deadly floods
10. Passes through the Hindu Kush mountain range allowed people to ________________
and ______________________ to India.
11. Because the farmers in the Indus Valley had a surplus of food, the _________________
______________________.
12. Two cities, ______________________ and _____________________________ grew in
the Indus River Valley.
13. The city of Mohenjo-Daro was __________________ very carefully.
14. The city was built above ground level so that when the Indus River
____________________, the city would be ____________________.
15. The city was divided into ___________________ parts.
16. On one side of the city, they built the _____________________ and
_____________________.
17. On the other side of the city, they built the ____________________
_____________________.
18. The highest point of the city was known as the ___________________, or
_______________________.
19. This area would have protected the ________________ _______________________
buildings in the city.
20. Underneath the city, _________________ carried ________________ away from the
city.
21. In order to help control the flooding of the Indus River, they built __________________
to catch the extra ___________________.
22. In the city of Mohenjo-Daro, ___________________ lined the streets.
23. Houses had ____________________ in the center.
24. Historians do not know anything about the ________________ or _________________
of the people of Mohenjo-Daro because they cannot understand the meaning of the
_____________________.
25. Around 2000 B.C., people stopped ___________________ in the Indus Valley.
26. At the same time, the ______________________ moved, or ___________________,
into the Indus Valley.
27. They gained power by using ____________________________ ___________________
to overpower the native people.
28. The Aryan culture slowly ______________ ______________ the culture of the original
inhabitants.
29. Knowledge of the Aryan culture comes from religious books called ________________.
30. The Aryan society consisted of three ____________________.
31. Top = _________________ who were priests
32. Below them = __________________ and ___________________
33. Third level = __________________ and ____________________
34. Over time, the bottom level came to be made of _____________ _________________,
______________________, and _______________________.
35. The strict division of people into classes became known as the _________________
________________________.
36. A person’s caste was determined by __________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
37. True or False? People could never leave their caste. _______________________