2. What is the message of the song?
How does the song affect you?
Which parts of the song can possibly be associated with the characteristics of ancient society?

3. I’m coming!!!

4. 2400 BCE
hunting
gathering
Farming & agriculture
TWO CITIES
MOHENJO-DARO
HARAPPA

5. Streets of considerable size and number; straight
Building made of bricks (houses, granaries, public halls etc.)
Relics: farming and domestication of animals
Clay seals: traded
Structure: geometry and surveying
System of weight and trade

6. Guards the fertile plain Irrigation and leaves silts
Does the civilization last long?

7. BCE

8. Originated: near Caspian and Black Sea
Who are they?
Aryans
Khyber Pass
Fair skinned people
Noble ones
Originated: near Caspian and Black Sea
Ruled by Rajah

9. What did they introduce/bring?
Sanskrit
Hinduism
Wealth indicator
number of cattle that an individual owned

10. Veda – knowledge/wisdom
VEDAS ( BCE)
Veda – knowledge/wisdom
hymns
contents
incantations
rituals
Oldest; Barbarian tribes fighting; life of the tribes
--principle: ahimsa (non-violence)
“Knowledge of the Hymns of Praise”, for recitation”
Rig Veda
Yajur Veda
“Knowledge of the Sacrificial formulas”, for liturgy
Sama Veda
“Knowledge of the Melodies”, for chanting
Atharva Veda
“Knowledge of the Magic formulas”, named after a kind of group of priests.

11. Caste System Dasyu (Indus) Dark skinned before Aryans settled in India
4th group
SHUDRAS (servant)
Brahman (priests)
Kshatriyas (warriors)
Restrictions
--Varna--
Vaishyas (farmers or merchants)
Varnas or CASTE (Portuguese)

12. Hereditary
(fixed position)
It determines what???

13. Physically and spiritually clean
untouchables
BUDDHA - reformer

14. Social Center of Houghton Mifflin
1500 BCE
People fled
Social Center of Houghton Mifflin
Complex ecological and climatic change