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    Answer in Your Notebook Each Question and Make A Drawing To Illustrate It

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    The document contains 5 questions about ancient South Asian civilizations and religions. 1) It describes the Indus Valley civilization as a large Bronze Age society centered around the Indus River valley from 3300-1300 BC, with major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. 2) It explains that the caste system in South Asia assigned social status and roles at birth, dividing society into closed strata like Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. 3) It notes that the literary works of the Aryan civilization like the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics were culturally important for India.

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    The document contains 5 questions about ancient South Asian civilizations and religions. 1) It describes the Indus Valley civilization as a large Bronze Age society centered around the Indus River valley from 3300-1300 BC, with major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. 2) It explains that the caste system in South Asia assigned social status and roles at birth, dividing society into closed strata like Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. 3) It notes that the literary works of the Aryan civilization like the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics were culturally important for India.

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    The document contains 5 questions about ancient South Asian civilizations and religions. 1) It describes the Indus Valley civilization as a large Bronze Age society centered around the Indus River valley from 3300-1300 BC, with major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. 2) It explains that the caste system in South Asia assigned social status and roles at birth, dividing society into closed strata like Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. 3) It notes that the literary works of the Aryan civilization like the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics were culturally important for India.

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    TASK

    Answer in your notebook each question and make a drawing to


    illustrate it:

    1. What was the Indus Valley Civilization like?

    The Indus Valley culture was a Bronze Age civilization, which


    developed from around 3300 BC. C. until 1300 a. C. throughout the
    valley of the river Indus, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the northwest of
    India. It covered about a hundred settlements and two major cities:
    Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both sites in Pakistan. Altogether it
    comprised the largest area of all ancient civilizations, over a million
    square kilometers, and spanned several periods, its peak being
    between 2600 and 1900 BC. C.

    Like the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, it depended on its


    river. Like the Nile, the Indus overflowed every year, flooding extensive
    areas and depositing fertile sediments.

    2. What was the caste system and how did it affect life in South
    Asia?

    Breed:
    It is a social system in which personal status is awarded for life,
    therefore in caste-organized societies the different strata are closed
    and the individual must remain in the social stratum in which he was
    born.
    The characteristics that differentiate the different social strata are: race,
    religion, etc. that he accidentally acquires at birth and with which he
    cannot change.
    Caste societies can be seen as a class society in which social class is
    acquired at birth. Caste systems reject close relationships with
    members of other castes.
    This "purity" of castes is usually maintained by inbreeding rule,
    marriage must be between people of the same social group.
    3. Why was the literary legacy of the Aryan civilization
    important?

    Epic Sanskrit and Pánini Sanskrit

    The language of the epic texts Majábharata and Ramaiana, and the
    classic Sanskrit described by the grammarian Pánini - after 400 a. C. -
    it is considered a different language from Vedic Sanskrit.

    From an archaeological point of view, this period corresponds to the


    rapid spread of northern black polished pottery throughout northern
    India. This was also the time of the beginning of Vedānta, and also the
    appearance of Gautama Buddha, and of the Pali language in which the
    Buddhist scriptures were written.

    From an archaeological point of view, this period corresponds to the


    culture of gray painted pottery and the shift of the political center of
    India, from the kurus to the panchalas, on the Ganges river.

    Historical records only exist after the end of the Vedic period, and they
    were very scarce throughout the Middle Ages in India. The end of
    Vedic India was marked by cultural, linguistic and political changes.
    4. What is Hinduism?

    Polytheistic religion originating in India that lacks a structured and


    homogeneous system of beliefs but in which it is very important to
    follow the sacred texts, Vedas, and certain rules of conduct (respect
    the social caste system, follow a marriage ritual, etc. .); It is
    characterized by believing in reincarnation and in the existence of a
    supreme Being (Brahma) in which the soul of man aspires to dilute
    himself when he frees himself from the body and manages to abandon
    his karma.

    5. Who was the Buddha?

    The Buddha was an ascetic, yogi, mendicant, philosopher, and sage


    on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He taught primarily in the
    northwestern Indian subcontinent for some forty years. His teaching is
    based on a vision of suffering and end of suffering.

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