Ancient India

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Ancient India

• By Nicole R.

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Food of Ancient India

• The earliest Indians ate mainly lentils, rice and
  wheat. They also occasionally ate cows, pigs,
  sheep, goats and chicken. Some of the wheat
  produced was made into stews or soups and some
  made into flatbreads called chapatis.

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Shelter in Ancient India

• The biggest earliest homes in India were made out
  of mud-brick and baked brick. Most of the
  buildings were ordinary houses.

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Physical Environment

• Most of the time, the weather in ancient India
  was hot and dry except each May a monsoon would
  come and it would rain buckets of water. The
  monsoon would go on for about a month.

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People of Ancient India

• People in ancient India were divided into five
  groups, or castes. Actually, there were only
  four groups and the lowest were the untouchables
  and below them were the slaves. The order went
  slaves, untouchables, Shudras, Viashyas (farmers
  or traders), Kshatriyas and the highest group the
  Brahmans.

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Clothing of Ancient India

• The women of ancient India wore a very long piece
  of cloth that they wrapped around themselves
  called a sari. Most were made out of cotton and
  wealthier women had silk ones.

• The men of ancient India also wore a long piece
  of cloth called a dhoti which they wrapped around
  their legs. The dhoti was usually white, but they
  were shorter than the sari.

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Architecture of Ancient India

• There are probably a lot of temples in ancient
  India, but the largest Hindu temple complex in
  the world is the Akshardham temple. It is 356
  FEET LONG, 315 FEET WIDE and 141 FEET HIGH!!!!
  The Akshardham temple is in South Delhi.

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Recreation/sports of Ancient India

• In Ancient India, they did not have the games
  that we have today. Instead they had an idea to
  throw the knucklebones of pigs or sheep to play a
  game sort of like jacks or to tell the future.
  Indian people played of board games like snakes
  and ladders and chess which they got from China.

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Education in Ancient India

• When Buddhism spread in India, men and women both
  had equal rights to teaching and learning. They
  learned about theology, religion, philosophy,
  fine arts, painting, architecture, mathematics,
  medicine, and astronomy.

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Religious Beliefs

• India has been an important part of three major
  world religions Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
  Buddhism began in India and spread to different
  parts of Asia. Islam started in West Asia and
  came to India and the origins of Hinduism are
  still uncertain.

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Websites

• http//www.indiaedu.com/history-education-india.ht
  ml, http//www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/,
  http//lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/akshardham-
  delhi-in-guinness-book-313.html,