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__GEOGRAPHY__ __CLIMATE__ __ENVIORNMENTAL CHALLENGES__ __EARLIEST ARRIVALS__ __PLANNED CITIES__ __HARRAPAN PLANNING__ __CULTURE__ __LANGUAGE__ __THE CASTE SYSTEM ROLES__ __THE CASTE SYSTEM__
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 * The highest mountians in i like boys in the world (the Himalaya's)
 * A large desert to the East
 * Enormus flat and fertile plain
 * Farming is only rivers and the land they make up stretch 1,700 miles across Northern India called the Indo-Gangetic plain
 * South of the Indo-Gangetic plain was a peninsula and in the center was a region called the Deccan Plateau
 * There was Monsoons
 * Wet Season and Dry season
 * Yearly floods spread deposits of rich soil over a wide area
 * The rivers sometimes changed course
 * The cycle of wet and dry season brought monsoon winds
 * Northern migrants may have made their way through the Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains
 * By about 3200 B.C. people were farming along the Indus River
 * Around 2500 B.C. people were laying bricks for India's first cities
 * Indus Valley civilizations were called Harappan Civilizations
 * Cities featured a fortified area called citadels
 * First cities with Pluming
 * The city was partially built on mud-brick platforms to prevent flooding
 * The streets could be 30 feet wide
 * Walls divided residential districts
 * Houses were layed out into block units
 * Childrens toys show that there were animals
 * Social divisions were not great
 * Very few weapons
 * Had a developed written language
 * Never been translated
 * 400 symbols make up the language
 * 2 signs put together make 1 word
 * brahmins (Priests)
 * Kshatriyas (warriors and kings)
 * Vaishyas (traders and famers)
 * shudras (laborers and artisans)
 * Untouchables (leatherworkers, butchers, lauderers, and latrine cleaners)
 * Based on race
 * Not allowed to move up or down in the roles
 * Not allowed to marry out of your caste level
 * Numerous groups intergrated into the Caste