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India

 Time Period-
 * Geography-**
 * 1) The landmass that includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as the subcontinent
 * 2) The highest mountains in the world. Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalayan two river the Indus and the Ganges
 * 3) There is a penisula that thrusts south into the Indian ocean. In the middle there is a region called the decan.
 * 4) Yearly floods spread desposits of rich soil over a wide area.
 * 5) There is a cycle of wet, dry seasons brought by the Monson winds was unpredictable.
 * 1) Found evidence in highlands of agriculture and domestication sheep and goats dating to about 7,000 B.C.
 * 3,200 B.C., people were farming in villages along the Indus river.
 * 2,500 B.C.- people in the Indus Valley started building their first cities.

Indus Cities- Language-
 * 1) Indus laid out their cities on a presice grid system.
 * 2) There was an area called a citadel, which contained the major buildings of the city.
 * 3) The city was partcially built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding. In side was a citadel which provided protection for the royal families.
 * 4) [[image:http://www.sewerhistory.org/images/w/wam/loth_wam12.jpg width="215" height="108"]]
 * 1) The Harappan culture developed a written language, which we cannot figure out.
 * 2) There are 400 symbols that make up the language.

Trade-
 * 1) Traded a lot with Afganistan & other places using the Indus river.
 * 2) Traded from 2600 B.C. - 1800 B.C.
 * 3) Their transportation to trade was the Indus river.
 * 4) They made toys.
 * 5) Few people knew how to grow cotton, so cotton clothes were desired.
 * 6) There were seals on goods for indentifacation.

Enviromental Challenges-
 * 1) Too much rain= floods that swept away villages.
 * 2) Rivers changed the course sometimes.
 * 3) The flooding of the rain was unpredictable.
 * 4) Earthquakes could change the course of the river and even destroy the cities themselves.
 * 5) too little rain ---> plants die.

Culture-
 * 1) Housing was not great, they were made poorly.
 * 2) Animals were a big part of society on pottery, statues, toys, and seals. Some were regular animals while others were beasts.
 * 3) While egyptians were building pyramids, people in Indus Valley were laying bricks for the Indus first cities.
 * 4) Houses made on mud-brick platforms.
 * 5) Few warefare= limited conflict.
 * 6) toys=properous society.
 * 7) animals were important.
 * 8) [[image:http://www.thefurtrapper.com/images/bullet%20stuff.jpg width="183" height="109"]]

Religion-
 * 1) 80% of the population is Hinduism.
 * 2) 13% Islam ---> population
 * 3) inter-religious marrage is not wildely practiced.
 * 4) The top people were woshiped as statues and the were woshiped in temples.
 * 5) They held great importance for Indians, but there is no religious festival.
 * 6) Hindus observe religious rituals at home.
 * 7) observation of rituals greatly vary amoung religion, villages, and individuals.
 * 8) Muslims offer five daily prayers at specific times of the day.

Agriculture-
 * 1) Used domestication wheats and barley.
 * 2) Vegetarianism is much less common amoung Muslim and Christians.
 * 3) Hinduism- Beef
 * 4) Islams- Pork

Climate-
 * 1) Wide range of weather conditions
 * 2) Four seasons- Winter (January&Febuary), Summer (March-May) and rainy season (June-September)

