Social Studies L. Nabulsi Ancient India Social Studies L. Nabulsi

Vocabulary Subcontinent Indus River Himalayas Indus Plain

Timeline of Ancient India 6000 BC - Indus River Valley People begin growing rice 2500 BC - Mohenjo-Daro Makers of pottery 1900 BC – Khyber Pass Aryans come to the Hindu Kush and control the Indus Valley (where did they come from)? 540s BC – Bodh-Gaya Siddharta Gautama or Buddha teaches religious ideas

Read Aloud “Boulder [ground] to silt by water….deep, round valleys, robed in cloud against the crag-carving sunlight on [mountain] peaks… And centuries of cloud have melted, valleys have sweated froth-white cascades to draw the long, brown line down to the sea” (Banks 130). This is how Pakistani poet Salmon Tarik Kureshi describes the Indus River

The Big Picture Begins in snow-covered mountains of South Asia Flows through Pakistan, India and China Joined by other rivers Flows south Brown in color due to silt Giver of life Enables fertile farming areas since 6000 BC

A Great River Is Born Begins as an icy stream in the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountains Mt. Everest – 29,028 feet Himalayas separate the Indian subcontinent from Asia

Long Journey of the Indus Spring – swells from melting snow, flooding the Indus Plain with twice the fertile silt as the Nile Flows south and empties in the Arabian Gulf 1800 mile journey through modern-day Pakistan Rushes through 3-mile deep canyons, 3 times the depth of the Grand Canyon Joins other rivers in the dry Indus Plain, which forms a huge delta before empting into the Arabian Sea

Agriculture and the Indus River 6000 BC crops first planted 1000 before Egypt Crops Wheat Barley Beans Sesame Rice Banana Black pepper Mustard cotton Built irrigation canals and protective walls Domesticated animals Water buffalo plows Plant and harvest twwice a year Fall crops Agriculture and the Indus River

Working with the Environment Walls not always enough Floods could wipe out whole villages Wildlife problems threatened life or crops Tigers Jackals Wild pigs Deer birds Developed weapons Slings Clay balls Responsibility of the children

Draw the map Turn to page 131 and draw the map of India. Trace the Gangees River and the Indus River Color code and indicate the Indus Plain Know where the Indus River originates, when it floods, and into what body of water it empties.

VENN Diagram Make a three realm VENN Diagram telling the following: Origin Length Flooding Flood control Effect of Floods River as a trade route Include the Nile, Fertile Crescent and Indus River