1. Ch. 6 Ancient India Vocabulary Words

2. A large area of land that is part of a continent but separated in some way

3. Subcontinent

4. Season when moist winds blowing from the ocean toward land bringing heavy rains

5. monsoon

6. The Aryan language

7. Sanskrit

8. Religion featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation

9. Hinduism

10. A group within a social class

11. caste

12. Religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha

13. Buddhism

14. The base-ten system of numbers 0-9

15. Arabic numeral

16. the soul lives on after death and returns to life in a new body, rebirth

17. reincarnation

18. Group of people who came to ancient India from eastern Europe and western Asia

19. Aryans

20. The widespread cutting down of trees

21. deforestation