Ancient India: Caste, Belief, and Empire: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 6 (Letters & Devotion)

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Ancient India: Caste, Belief, and Empire is Unit 4 of The Ancient World: Peoples, Power, and Place (Grade 6), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 55 pages.

• Indus Valley river geography and city locations
• The relationship between undeciphered writing and limits of historical evidence
• The four varna categories and their defining features
• Hindu and Buddhist explanations of suffering (dharma/karma/reincarnation vs. Four Noble Truths)
• The structural features of the caste system that restrict social mobility
• Ashoka’s edicts as a persuasive primary source about imperial rule
• Transfer of the Hinduism/Buddhism self-and-suffering comparison structure to new texts
• The Unit 1 civilization checklist (surplus, specialization, hierarchy, government, writing) applied to Maurya India
• The chronological sequence from Aryan migration to caste formation

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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