1. Indus River Valley 4.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qd-fAnHjPg

2. A. Beginning High in the Mountains 1.India is a subcontinent of Asia 2.The Himalayas separate India from the rest of Asia 3.The Indus R. begins as a stream in these mountains 4.In the spring it filled with melting snow 5.It flows through China, Pakistan, and India 6.During the spring it floods leaving _____ behind.  Twice as much as the Nile 7.Like Egypt & Mesopotamia the people counted on the silt for farming

3. B. Indus Valley Agriculture 1.Began farming around 6,000 B.C.  1000 years before Egypt 2.Used the warm climate and irrigation to plant twice a year = much more surplus 3.Used levees like Mesopotamia to protect crops 4.Had to work with the environment a.Floods could, and sometimes did, destroy the levees b.Animals - tigers eat farmers - deer eat crops