Ancient India Vocabulary
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Ancient India: Teacher Guide & Activities
By Liane Hicks
People have been living on the Indian subcontinent for 250,000 years! Currently there are over 1.3 billion people living in the Republic of India, making it the second most populous country in the world next to China. Learn more with Storyboard That!
Storyboard Description
Students can create a visual vocabulary spider map to highlight key terms relating to Ancient India.
Storyboard Text
- DHARMA
- HARAPPA
- MONSOON
- (n.) Dharma is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. It means one's spiritual duties or "right way of living" and "path of rightness". It is symbolized by the "Dharma Wheel."
- (n.) India's first civilization located along the Indus River.
- (n.) a strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer
- CASTE SYSTEM
- BRAHMAN(Priests, Religious Scholars)
- KSHATRIYAS(Rulers, Warriors, Wealthy landowners)
- VAISHYAS(Farmers, Merchants)
- ANCIENT INDIA VOCABULARY
- MEDITATION
- (n.) a social order that has determined one's place in Indian society
- SHUDRAS(Laborers, Artisans, Servants)
- DALIT(Sanitation workers, considered outside the caste system and treated poorly)
- (n.) focusing one's mind on spiritual ideas.
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