Early farming villages developed into this

Ruler over community or civilization. Ensures food and safety. People follow to gain benefit from the rule of law.

Systems provided by the government to assist the daily life of citizens. Roads,bridges,etc.

Beliefs that include belief in a higher or supernatural power. Divides or unifies civilizations.

Used to keep records, symbols that represented sounds.

Different occupations within a society. Lets people become a specialist within a field rather then work multiple jobs they don't have skills for.

Determined by birth, used to state social standing of wealth. societies ranked citizens to separate certain groups from others.

Defines a cultures creativity, more goods are produced which means more wealth was being earned from trade.

Brought about by Agricultural Revolution. Permanent settlements, end of nomadic lifestyle

Social, Political, Interaction, Culture, Economic

a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society

a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood.

Another class in the caste system made up of commoners

The landless peasants and serfs of the caste system.

The warrior and aristocrat varna of the caste system.

lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society

A valley and early civilization along the Indus River, one of the longest rivers in the world.

an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.

sacred animal of Hinduism

the largest Indus River civilizations

What allowed Indus River Civilization to thrive?

In what ways was the Indus Valley civilization more advanced than the Mesopotamian and Nile Civilizations?