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Which is not a contribution made in India by the northern conquerors? ?

Me and my friend need help on our social studies homework! ok so, the question we need help on is which of the following is not a contribution made in India by the northern conquerors? the answers you can choose from are: a. the iron plow b. the caste system c. sanskrit d. Buddhism if you know what it is plz help us! thx!

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1. Not the best question, but I'd say "Buddhism" since this came centuries after the Aryan invasion.
2. a. the iron plow By the fourth century BC at the least, the frame-plow was being officially promoted by government officials of China. Nowhere else in the world at this time were there plows to compare with the Chinese ones. The study, square frames, strong heavy, well-designed shares and the new moldboards were all factors well in advance of anywhere else. But perhaps of greater importance stil was the use of an adjustable strut which precisely regulated the plowing depth by altering the distance between the blade and the beam. When plow methods were introduced into Holland and England in the seventeenth century from China, they sparked the European agricultural revolution, and it is believed that European agricultural revolution brought up the Industrial Revolution. Thus we can say, Chinese played an importrant role in this. b. the caste system. About 1500BC, powerful nomadic warriors known as Aryans appeared in northern India. The warriors were from Central Asia, but managed to overcome the Himalayas by finding lower passes in the mountains, such as the Khyber Pass in Pakistan. The Aryans conquered the Dravidians of Central India and imposed their social structure upon them. The Aryans divided their society into separate castes. Castes were unchanging groups. A person born into one caste never changed castes or mixed with members of other castes. Caste members lived, ate, married, and worked with their own group. At the top of the caste system were the Brahmin – the priests, teachers, and judges. Next came the Kshatriya (KUH SHAT REE YUHZ), the warrior caste. The Vaisya caste (VEEZ YUHZ) were the farmers and merchants, and the Sudras, were craftworkers and laborers. The untouchables were the outcastes, or people beyond the caste system. Their jobs or habits involved “polluting activities” including: • Any job that involved ending a life, such as fishing. • Killing or disposing of dead cattle or working with their hides. • Any contact with human emissions such as sweat, urine, or feces. This included occupational groups such as sweepers and washermen. • People who ate meat. This category included most of the primitive Indian hill tribes. Untouchables were often forbidden to enter temples, schools and wells where higher castes drew water. In some parts of southern India, even the sight of untouchables was thought to be polluting. The untouchables forced to sleep during the day and work at night. Many untouchables left their rigid social structure by converting to Islam, Buddhism, or Christianity. The Caste System has been illegal in India for more than fifty years, but it continues to shape people’s lives. The Indian government has provided the Harijan a term now popularly used in place of untouchable, with specific employment privileges, and granted them special representation in the Indian parliament. Despite such measures, the Harijan continue to have fewer educational and employment opportunities than Indians from higher castes. c. sanskrit Sanskrit (संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Indo-Aryan language, a liturgical language of Hinduism and other Indian religions,[1] and one of the 22 official languages of India.[2] Classical Sanskrit is the standard register as laid out in the grammar of Pāṇini, around the 4th century BCE. Its position in the cultures of South and Southeast Asia is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of Nepal and India.[3] The pre-Classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE,[4] qualifying Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestation of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family.[5] The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and Hindu religious texts. Today, Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras. Spoken Sanskrit is still in use in a few traditional institutions in India, and there are many attempts at revival.