C.H.-5 Ancient India And Persia
Published on Mar 27, 2016
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L.-1 India's Geography
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Subcontinent
is a large area of land that is separated by geography from the rest of the continent.
Present day countries of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistin together are a subcontinent.
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Travel and Life
Travel and life is hard in southern India because of their hills rather than northern India.
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The Land of India
has two great rivers in the subcontinent are the Indus and Ganges. The Indus River has tributaries into the western Himalayas and moves southward through Pakistan and then empties into the Arabian Sea. And the Ganges River and its tributaries start in the middle of Himalayas and flow eastward through India to the Bay of Bengal.
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The Indians raised cattle, sheep, and goats, but the cotton plant was good for cloths.
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People in ancient India new that rivers gave them life, the also thought rivers where holy.
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Ancient India's holiest river was the Ganges River, an Indian poet wrote that the river was called "blessing of the world" which would "soothe our troubled souls." Every Hindu follower bathe in the Ganges River because they believe it will wash away their sins.
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Monsoon
is the season when moist winds blow from the Indian Ocean towards the subcontinent.
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One India's gods were Indra the god of thunderstorms, so when the people need rain the pray for him to fill and dump down his bucket. And some people interning India wrote rain fell day and night.
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Someways that India's farming is bad is because of the floods but the people used the floods for good by using it for fresh silt.
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Deforestation is the widespread of cutting down trees which happened a lot in India.
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L.-2 Indus Valley's Civilization
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Sarasvati
was a river that floods and spills over its bank and floods India and makes new Islands and in that way villages become cities because of trade they grew bigger. Now the Sarasvati is dry.
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Once a great civilization formed that would be present-day Pakistan and so of Afghanistan were northern India.
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Harappa, Lothal, and Mohejo-Daro that had the first civilizations and research in the Indus Valley.
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When archaeologists study Mohenjo-Daro artifacts are found like vases, and other life object.
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Fortress
is a building to protect the inside place or a city. In Mohenjo-Daro the fortress was built on the west side.
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In Mohenjo-Daro only rich people had brick house but poor people have huts of hay.
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Most of the people of Mohenjo-Daro were craftworkers and merchants, they knew how to read and write because of their works having their name.
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Archaeologists found sudden death in Mohenjo-Daro and this is the mystery of Mohenjo-Daro, the archaeologists found dead bodies unburied so the archaeologists think the people of Mohenjo-Daro were running from something also there were sword cuts.
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The water of Indus Valley became salty and archaeologists think this means the people desired the place and assimilated.
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Aryan means noble. And the earliest migrants were the Aryans at 1500 B.C.from Eastern Europe and Western Asia were warriors and farmers.
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There were waves of migration by the Aryans to India and since they were strong warriors and had horses so when they reached the subcontinent they introduced they horses and chariots to the Indians because the Indians had no horses.
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Before coming to India the Aryans they were herders and lived of their animals but they became farmers when they moved to India because barely and wheat were from India and they never had them before.
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Sanskrit is an language that the Aryans brought to India. The Aryans also brought their customs. The Aryans holiest books, the Vedas was written in Sanskrit.
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The Aryans thought the gods spoke Sanskrit so it was holy. In the holiest books the Vedas which told about the Aryan religion.
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Hinduism is one of the oldest regions still used today and in Hinduism there were three main creator--- Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Presever, and Shiva the Destroyer, there are also lower gods. In Hinduism you can worship one god or more.
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Reincarnation is when in Hinduism you die then became a new body but the same soul till they are spiritual perfect which is when the souls did enough good deeds.
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Hindi people believe animal had souls and that cows are holy, that is why the do not eat beef.
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Buddha also Enlightened One real name was Siddhartha Gautama was a prince like a Disney princess because he goes to a different group even though his father doesn't want him to see the bad things.
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At age 30 Gautama went outside the palace walls, first he saw a man to old to care for himself then a dead body and found out age sickness made the person dead.
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The answer he found about the dead body he wanted to know more so he left his home and he went to live as a beggar so he could search for answers.
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When Gautama sat down under a tree to think about life and figured out what it meant, life meant that people should seek love, truth, the joy of knowledge, and a calm mind at that moment he became Buddha. He also asked the Brahman priest for help for answers.
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Gautama spent the rest of his life teaching about his message the Four Noble Truths- (1) Suffering is a part of life, (2) Wanting brings suffering, (3) People can find peace by giving up wants, (4) Follow the 8 basic rules called Eightfold Path can lead to peace.
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Buddhism is the religion based on teachings by Gautama and his followers, eventually spread across Asia.
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L.-4 United Ruled in India
Rajah
A rajah is a prince who ruled over large city-states rich in foods, jewelry, and metals.
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Outside ruled India but then a young Indian took over. Later in 320 B.C. a ruler called Chandragupta Maurya wanted control and got it but he lived in fear of assassination.
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Assassination
is murder for a political reason. No assassination came to Chandragupta Maurya.
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Chandragupta and his son made a book about ruling, they both followed the book and expanded the Maurya empire.
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Chandragupta's grandson, Ashoka became Maurya ruler in 273 B.C. And Ashoka ruled as firmly his father and grandfather but was kinder.
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A Turning Point is a time of important change. This happened to Ashoka in the invasion of Kalinge because he began to follow Buddha and not eat beef , and many followed of his people adopted Buddha's peaceful way.
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Ashoka made edicts on rocks or stone pillars about Buddha's belief. Ashoka also sent missionaries.
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Missionaries
Are people who teach about their religion. Ashoka's missionaries spread Buddha across Asia.
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500 years after Ashoka died the Maurya Empire argued but then the Guptas Empire United.
Chandragupta I became ruled a small kingdom in the Ganges valley but then took more of it into his kingdom.
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Faxian (name) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote much we know about the Gupta scoiety. Most of his writes are in his book called Fo Kuo Chi, which in English means Record of Buddhist Kingdoms.
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Faxian saw beautiful temples, monuments, and palaces. He concluded that that India during the Gupta Empire it was a safe and happy place. He also good roads and free hospitals.
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Inoculation
Is what doctors used that gave a person a mild form of a disease so the person will not get more sick.
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Chandragupta II lead India during their Golden age, in that time Chandragupta II supported artist and writes. Most writers wrote folktales collected in a book called the 'Panchatantra'
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Trading was a big part in the Golden Age in India.
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