1. A New Culture Arises

3.  Around 2000 B.C., farmers in the Indus River Valley began to ____________ their land  Why?  Climate change  Earthquakes caused __________that destroyed ________  BUT, a new culture arrived from the ________ gaining power

4.  The newcomers were called __________ or “noble”  Migrated from central __________  Aryans rode _________ that helped them gain power  Over time, Aryan culture developed.

5.  First developed in the northern Indus valley and spread ________ into the __________valley.  By 800 B.C., these people learned to make tools and weapons from ____________  New tools, such as iron axes, made it easy to cut down trees and build:  __________, villages and ____________

7.  Early Aryan people were _________and ____________  ___________ social class system:  _______________  Warriors and nobles  Artisans and ____________  __________ workers, laborers, and __________

8.  Each social class performed __________ duties  People had to stay in the class they were ____________ into.  Caste system still exists today in __________!