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subcontinent a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.

Monsoon

a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon ), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry monsoon ).

Sanskrit

an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.

Raja

an Indian king or prince.

Caste

each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.

Guru (in Hinduism and Buddhism) a spiritual teacher, especially one who imparts initiation. Similar

resembling without being identical.

Individual

single; separate.

Brahmins

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

Himalaya

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. Ganges The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.

Indus

The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia. It flows from western Tibet through Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan proper.

Deccan plateau The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in southern India. It rises to 100 metres in the north, and to more than 1 kilometre in the south, forming a raised triangle within the South-pointing triangle of the Indian subcontinent's coastline. Harappa Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River which now runs 8 km in north.

Mohenjo-daro

Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley civilization, and one of the world's ... The six nations are India, Pakistan, and Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

Cattle is important because

Since Aryan society depended on a pastoral economy cattle were extremely important. The Aryans would consume dairy products as well as beef. Prices in Aryan society were often calculated using cattle. Most wealthy people in this society had extensive herds of cattle. Cattle did not become sacred animals (as they are now in the Hindu religion) until much later. In the Vedic Age sometimes the men of one village would raid herds of cattle of another village. This was a major offense because cattle were the chief form of wealth in this society.