Kat+India

Katerina Adams India 

 __ Geography __  __Environmental Challenges__
 * 2rivers-Inudus,Gonges
 * Major cities:Harappa,Mohenio,Daro
 * Yearly floods spread deposits of rich soil over awide area
 *  Mountains are natural barriers
 * Highest mountain in the world,Hindukush,Karakorum,Himalaya
 * Eathquakes could change the course of the river and even destroy the cities themselves
 * Little rain=plants withered:people went hungry
 * To much rain=floods that swept away villi\ages
 * monsoons=seasonal winds
 * cycle of wet,dry seasons brought by the monsoon winds were unpredictable

<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #7cf609; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">__Religion__


 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Government was based on religion(theocracy)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Links to modern Hindu Culture
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Shiva was a major god
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Wiorshiped animals
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Moremans of a temple have been found by archeologist
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Tablets suggested that a mother godess might have been worshiped
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">prayed for good farminf a flooding

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 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Grid system
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">More than 100 settlements
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">2500 B.C. began laying briefs for the first city
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Indus valley civilization was also called Harappa civilization
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">strong central govenment
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Longest cities were Kalilangan,Mohenjo,Daro,and Harapa
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Human made islands->raied cities above flooding waters
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">built levees
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Indus valley civilization=Harapeanm civilization->many archeoligical discoveries
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Sophisticated city planning
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Citadel-> contained major buildings of city
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Meso=mud bricks, sundried->Indus=oven baked bricks
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Citadekl->protected royal family temple
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Harappan civilizxation=aka Indus valley civilization
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">found evidence of sheep and goats 700 B.C.

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 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Built drainage/sewage system
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">plumbing system
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">lanned their city streets
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">oven baked and cut bricks to build with

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 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">unsure how many settlement began in the Indian sub content
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Thery=people arrived from sea from Africa,settled in south
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Northern migrants went through Khyber pass in the Hindu Kushmit
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">3200 B.C.->farming along the iIndus River
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">1750 B.C,. First civilizatiion ends
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">After1750 B.C, nomads from the noth frestore civilizaton in India

__<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Culture __<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #0015ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">The language the people spoke has never been translated because there is no bilingual tablet with language on it
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Demesticated sheep+goats
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Artifacts made out of wood and clay
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Housing was not great
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">While egyptians were buiklding pyramid people in Indus valley were l;aying briicks for the Indus first cities
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">They layed at cities in Gris system
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Few warfare=limited conflict
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Toys=presperous society
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Animals were important
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Culture ends = 1750 B.C. Earthquakes caused floods+altered course of the Indus
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">House made on mud brick phlatforms

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<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"> __War__
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Trade a lot with Afganistan+other places using the Indus river
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">traded from 2600 B.C.-1800 B.C.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">made toys
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Semi precious stores they got came from Persia
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Their transportation was the Indus River
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Cotton cloth much desired
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">There were seals on goods for identification
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">Few people knew how to grow cotton, so cotton was desired
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;">traded gold


 * Not much war

__Language__


 * Harappan language was impossible to decipher
 * 400 symbols
 * thye speak indian
 * language found on stamps and seals
 * Animals found on stamps were animals that lived in the area
 * no bilingual inscription
 * depect an object/phonetic sound->like egypt

__Social Class__
 * housing social divisions not great

__Caste System__


 * People were divided up into four main groups:Brahmins,Kshatriyas,Vaishyas,and Shurdras
 * Added a fith called untouchables
 * Brahmins came from the mouth
 * Derived from Casta meaning race
 * Indians used "varna" meaning "color"
 * Caste system was created when
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