Diaz+India

**back to home** __**Climate**__ __**Time period**__ __**Language**__ __**Social classes**__
 * __[[image:lrg_india_map.gif width="64" height="64"]]Geography__**
 * India, Pakistan,& Bangladesh are the indian subcontinent
 * The wall of mountains Seperating India from the rest of the asian continent is the highest group in the world (The Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and the Himalayas.)
 * Mountains to the north, Desert to the south.
 * There are two rivers the Ganges and the Indus.
 * The Indus and the Ganges strech 1,700 miles across the Northern India called the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
 * Seasonal winds called monsoons dominate India's climate\
 * October to Febuary, Winter monsoons from the northeast blow dry air west ward across the country, June through October the winds shift again.
 * Storms bring alot of moisture so flooding happens quite often.
 * In the summers there is droughts.
 * __Environmental challenges__**
 * Unpredictable flooding
 * the rivers sometimes changed course
 * Monsoon winds were very wild and unpredictable.
 * Earthquakes & floods destroyed the city's levees and platforms.
 * 7000 b.c. domesticated sheeps & goats
 * 3200 b.c farming began.
 * 2500 b.c. first city was thought to began
 * Trading started 2600-1800 b.c.
 * 1750 b.c. the cities started to fall
 * __Technology__**
 * Made levees to keep water out their cities
 * Planed their cities & made streets
 * Created plumbing
 * Harrapan Language has been impossible to translate
 * 400 symbols made up the language
 * __Culture__**
 * Social divisions in the society were not great
 * Animals were a very important part of life
 * The Indus allowed transportation for trade
 * __Religion__**
 * Theocracy government
 * Prayed for good farming & flooding
 * Shiva was a major god
 * No remains of a temple have been found
 * Worshiped animals
 * Caste came from the Aryans when they invaded India
 * Caste is banned by the government but is still goes on today
 * Each caste is part of a locally based system of interdependence
 * the levels are
 * Brahmans, or the preist
 * The preists were thought to be created from the mouth of the primordial man
 * They provided the intelectual and spiritual needs for the community
 * Kshatriyas, or the wariors & rulers
 * They were thought to come from the arms of the primordial man
 * Their role was to protect others
 * Vaishyas, or land owners and merchants
 * They were thought to be derived from the thighs of the pirmordial man
 * They role in society was the care for commerce
 * Shudras, or the artisans and servants
 * They were thought to derive from the pirmordial man
 * They social task was to preform all manual labor
 * The Untouchables, or the peoiple the did the dirty work
 * They are thought to derive from the butt of the primorial man
 * They were tasked with the polluting work related to bodily decay[[image:man.gif link="RubenD"]]