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Title: Ancient India Geography


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Ancient India Geography
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Todays Location
  • Ancient India is located in the present day
    countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.
  • It is part of the continent of Asia.

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Ancient India Landforms
  • India is a large peninsula that juts out of
    Southern Asia.
  • Geographers call the peninsula a subcontinent
    because of its size and isolation from the rest
    of Asia.
  • Rocky, snow-capped Himalayan mountain peaks
    separate ancient India from the rest of Asia.
  • Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the
    world and is a part of the Himalayans.

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The Rivers of India
  • Coming down from the mountains two major rivers
    begin.
  • The Indus and Ganges Rivers
  • The Indus river is where the earliest
    civilization began in India.

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The Indus River
  • Fed by the melting snow, and the monsoon season,
    the water travels down the mountain, and with it
    comes silt. Then the water flows out to the
    Arabian Sea.
  • Monsoon season or the rainy season.
  • Nearly all of the rain and snow comes from the
    Monsoon season.
  • 100 -200 in. June- Sept

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Settlement in the Indus Valley
  • Each Spring when the snow melted the Indus
    floods.
  • A new layer of silt would spread across the
    floodplain making the land fertile once again.

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Early Indian Farmers
  • Early farmers grew barley and other grains.
  • Many families grew food just for themselves and
    did not sell much of their crops this is called
    Subsistence farming.

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Same stuff just different place!!
  • Around 2500 B.C. not much after the Fertile
    Crescent (Mesopotamia) and the Nile River
    (Egypt). People from the Indus Valley had built
    cities and began a civilization of their own!

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