Ancient India

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Ancient India

Geography and Climate
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Topics

• Geography
• Indus Valley Civilization
• The Vedic and Epics Periods
• The Age of Empires or Golden Age

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Questions to answer

• How did geography affect India?
• How do the monsoons affect Indian civilization
  (positively and negatively)?

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Geography

• Geography Study of the Earths physical features
  and climate
• Subcontinent Large mass of land connected to a
  larger continent, but separated from the larger
  continent by natural barriers
• India Himalayas and Hindu Kush Mountains
• India is isolated from Asia

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Climate

• Monsoons Seasonal wind shift that brings heavy
  rains.
• Winter (October to May) Monsoons blow from land
  toward sea.
• Summer (June to September) Monsoons blow from
  sea to land.
• Winters hot and dry, summers rainy.
• Summer monsoons deeply affect Indias agriculture
• Normal Good crops
• Poor Famine
• Heavy Floods

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The Indus River Valley

• Indias first settlers entered here, along the
  Indus River
• Fertile soil environment
• Similar to whom? Egypt and the Nile
• Rich soil surplus of wheat wheat surplus
  villages and cities
• Growth of two great cities
• Mohenjo-Daro
• Harappa

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Image Citations

• Image 1 http//southerncrossreview.org/48/rudnick
  i.htm
• Image 2 http//www.arch.cam.ac.uk/gis/mm10018-01.
  html
• Image 3 http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon
• Image 4 http//worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk/paki
  stan-Moenjodaro-IndusValleyMap.gif