Tryon+India

Tryon Home Page Geography Environmental Challenges Civilization: Language: Culture
 * A wall of the highest mountains in the world seperates this reigon from the rest of the Asian Continent.
 * Mountains are a natural barrier.
 * Two rivers
 * Indus
 * Ganges
 * Major Cities
 * Horrapa
 * Mohenjadaro
 * Yearly floods
 * Unpredictable
 * Rivers sometimes changed course.
 * Monsoon winds
 * also unpredictable
 * Little rain leaving:
 * plants withered
 * people going hungry
 * Too much rain leaving:
 * floods sweeping away whole villages
 * levees
 * platform (human made islands)
 * Seasonal winds
 * While Egyptians were building pyramids, people in the Indus river valley were laying bricks for Indus first cities.
 * Built leeves to keep water out of the city.
 * Layed out their cities in a grid system.
 * They developed their own written language.
 * Had 400 symbols that described sounds or objects.
 * artifacts were found that were made out of something like clay.
 * there were wooden child toys made out of wood.
 * animals were an importand part of culture.
 * were seals that were half art and half character writing.

Religion: Trade and Economy: Social Class: Caste System: four main groups.
 * Government was theocracy
 * Links to Hinduism
 * Mother godess, fertility images, worship of the bull.
 * Gold and silver came from North Afghanistan
 * Semi Precious stones came from Persia
 * Indus river promoted trade.
 * Their social classes were made in a system of the caste
 * can't move up
 * you can move down if your caught socializing with a person from a lower class.
 * brahmins (preists)
 * kshatriyas (warriors and kings)
 * vaishyas (traders and farmers)
 * shundras (laborers and artisans)