Fill In Sentences:
Ancient India
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
decade
associate
quota
depict
chariot
shortage
caste
urban
barrier
creation
status
epic
evolve
ceremonial
disrupt
1. When there is a of water, members of the community are asked to conserve by not watering their lawns and taking shorter showers
2. The girls decided the movie they would make for their class was a wonderful .
3. Many aspects of weddings, such as saying “I do,” and tossing the bouquet, are traditional or .
4. Jenny would always her mother with ballet since she had been a ballerina before Jenny was born.
5. It took her a to finish writing the book, but she believes that they were ten years well spent.
6. For the survey, there was a of how many people could respond in each age group.
7. It was difficult for poor people to rise to a higher station because their low prevented them from earning more money.
8. People who have a lot of money are often considered to be of high .
9. When one of the wheels of the broke, the whole thing toppled over on its side.
10. The art teacher asked the students to the landscape using only three colors.
11. John built a wall to be a between his yard and his neighbor's yard.
12. The city of San Francisco is one of California's largest areas.
13. Many words over the centuries and undergo changes in pronunciation and spelling.
14. The class knew that they were not to the teacher while she was talking.
15. The movie had an theme, involving a brave warrior overcoming a series of obstacles.
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Definition Matching:
Ancient India
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
disrupt
1. not enough of something
status
2. something that has been made; the act of making something
creation
3. having to do with national or local customs and rituals; customary, ritual
depict
4. to join or connect together
urban
5. a period of ten years
epic
6. a fixed share or proportion of something
shortage
7. a division of society based on wealth, inherited rank or occupation
chariot
8. a person's rank or position in a group, an organization, or a society
decade
9. a small vehicle pulled by a horse, used in ancient time in battles or for racing
quota
10. to show something in a picture or by using words
evolve
11. something that prevents people, traffic, or other things from going past it
ceremonial
12. to do cities or being in a city
associate
13. to change slowly, sometimes over many years
caste
14. to disturb or break up something that is happening
barrier
15. telling a long story about heroic adventures and great battles
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Crossword:
Ancient India
Words
CASTE
EPIC
SHORTAGE
DECADE
CREATION
EVOLVE
DISRUPT
URBAN
STATUS
BARRIER
CEREMONIAL
DEPICT
ASSOCIATE
CHARIOT
QUOTA
9
8
6
14
11
4
1
13
3
2
7
12
10
15
5
Across
2. to join or connect together
3. something that has been made; the act of making something
5. something that prevents people, traffic, or other things from going past it
8. to show something in a picture or by using words
10. to change slowly, sometimes over many years
13. a fixed share or proportion of something
14. to do with cities or being in a city
Down
1. having to do with national or local customs and rituals; customary, ritual
4. not enough of something
6. a small vehicle pulled by a horse, used in ancient times in battles or for racing
7. to disturb or break up something that is happening
9. a period of ten years
11. a person’s rank or position in a group, an organization, or a society
12. a division of society based on wealth, inherited rank or occupation
15. telling a long story about heroic adventures and great battles
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The mysteries and major accomplishments of Ancient India, for kids, are explored here, with an emphasis on their advances in city-building and the contributions of Vedic Aryans to modern Indian culture and society.
Unlike the great dynasties of ancient Egypt and China, the civilization of Ancient India is still somewhat of a mystery. The cities of this vast empire – which flourished in the Indus River valley thousands of years ago – did not leave much behind: no weapons, temples, or artwork that we could use to tell their story. But what we do know about Ancient India is fascinating. Kids studying world history will be spellbound by accounts of the two major cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. These huge urban trading hubs were carefully planned and seem uncannily modern, with their advanced plumbing systems (they even had toilets!), communal granaries, and graceful public buildings.
In this unit, an overview of what was happening elsewhere in the world besides Ancient India, for kids, helps put this civilization into a global context, but while we know what happened to the Egyptian and Chinese empires, we still don’t have a clue about what caused the mighty Indus Valley civilization to vanish around 1500 B.C. However, this was also when the Vedic Aryans began migrating to the region, bringing with them an early form of Hinduism and a social structure that became the modern Indian caste system. Two of the world’s greatest epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, also came out of the Aryan/Hindu culture of Ancient India; for kids studying this era, simplified versions of these masterpieces would be perfect accompaniments to this unit.
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Mysterious Ancient India
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India’s First Cities
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Inside Mohenjo-Daro
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Other Civilizations in the Ancient World
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The Indo-European Migration
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The Caste System
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Roots of Hinduism
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India’s First Cities
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