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India

India. Geography. Indus and Ganges Lots rainfall, monsoons-violent rain, flooding, seasonal Deccan plateau, subcontinent Mountains to the North- Kyber Pass. Politics. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro two major cities Not much known because writing has yet to be deciphered

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India

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  1. India

  2. Geography • Indus and Ganges • Lots rainfall, monsoons-violent rain, flooding, seasonal • Deccan plateau, subcontinent • Mountains to the North-Kyber Pass

  3. Politics • Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro two major cities • Not much known because writing has yet to be deciphered • Government controls public works, appears hierarchy • Cities built on grid like pattern, planned, think sign centralization

  4. Economics • Lots agriculture-store grain in public use for droughts • Indus for irtrigation • Craftsman, sold onto Silk Road, jewelry, copper, pottery, bronze • Trade with central Asia, Mesopotamia, Egypt • Trade agricultural goods-wheat, barley, cotton

  5. Religion • Polytheistic • The Aryan bring Hinduism 1500BCE as well as the caste system • Reincarnation, dharma, Karma • Buddha born

  6. Society • Caste system, born into, can’t escape, defines, job, who marry, privileges • Bhramin (priests, rulers, teachers), Kshatriyas (elites,warriors,), Vaisyas (farmers), Sudras (servants, lowest) • Aryan invasion brought caste and religion and • Rajas leader title

  7. Intellect • Public irrigation, baths, cow breeding and irrigartion • Sandscript • First medicine, surgery, physics, chemistry, math, astronomy • Sewage systems • First dice and chess games

  8. Arts • Depicts gods • Pottery, metalwork, paperwork, weaving • Public art, all to enjoy • Bronze tools • Sometimes depicts nomadic life

  9. Decline • Aryans invade • Vedic Age

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