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Do Now…

Do Now…. Montville High School is being closed and moving to a new building, which has no furniture or equipment. What items would you take with you to move into the new school. Make a list of items in this classroom (furniture, equipment, etc.) What would you take and what would leave behind

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Do Now…

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  1. Do Now… • Montville High School is being closed and moving to a new building, which has no furniture or equipment. What items would you take with you to move into the new school. • Make a list of items in this classroom (furniture, equipment, etc.) • What would you take and what would leave behind • What might cause the school to be suddenly evacuated?

  2. Early India

  3. In the Future… • 1,000 years from now archeologists find the ruins of Montville High School. What would they make of the empty building? Would be they be able to figure out what it was used for?

  4. Discuss…What questions would you ask an archeologist? Questions?????

  5. Discuss…What questions would you ask an archeologist? • No one says “We are living at the pinnacle of the United States” – Because we don’t know • What to consider with a civilization? • Why did it Start? • How do we structure our lives? • What motivates you and the way you act? • Mesopotamia, Romans, Greeks, etc all have SOMETHING left to tell us about their civilization • What if a Civilization leaves little clues?

  6. You are an Archeologist… • If you were an early 20th-century archaeologist, • what would you make of these finds? • What is being depicted? • What purpose do you think they served? • How might they be used? • Are they ritual objects or mundane objects?

  7. Economy • Traded Cotton Cloth • THESE ARE FOUND IN MESOPOTAMIA

  8. Priest-King

  9. India is the REASON we study history!!!!!

  10. What do we know? – Harappa 1920

  11. Khybar pass (links Pakistan & afghanistan )

  12. Ariel View of Mohenjo – Daro – what can you tell about this civilization ?

  13. Citadel Of Mohenjo-Daro

  14. Covers 1.5 Kilometers 35,000 people lived there

  15. City life in Indus Valley • Built Multi Story Homes • Used bricks • Arranged like a City (grid) • Leads people to believe they must have had a government • Cities are arranged with wind in mind (Air Conditioning) • Used gravity to make drains = Plumbing

  16. Street and House

  17. Wells

  18. Drains

  19. The Great Bath– Center of Civilization – what does this tell you? To the north is a citadel or raised area. In Mohenjo-Daro, the citadel is built on an architectural platform about 45 feet above the plain. On the summit was a huge communal bath. Next to the large bath was a huge open space—a granary where food was stored from possible floods. Fortified walls mark the southeast corner.

  20. Male Skeleton, Harappa

  21. Close up of male skeleton

  22. Female Skeleton with Child, Harappa

  23. Skeletal Remains: When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city.

  24. Nuclear Radiation? • At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. • These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  25. Atomic Bomb Destroys City 4,000 Years ago? • There was an epicenter about 50 yards wide where everything was crystallized, fused or melted, he said. • Sixty yards from the center the bricks are melted on one side indicating a blast. the horrible, mysterious event of 4,000 years ago that leveled MohenjoDaro was recorded in an old Hindu manuscript called the Mahabharata, which has been guarded by holy men for centuries:

  26. “White hot smoke that was a thousand times brighter than the sun rose in infinite brilliance and reduced the city to ashes, the account reads. Water boiled...horses and war chariots were burned by the thousands.. . the corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they no longer looked like human beings...” The description concludes: “…it was a terrible sight to see ... never before have we seen such a ghastly weapon. “

  27. Enter the Aryans • Approximately 1500 B.C.E. a nomadic and pastoral people who spoke the Indo-European language passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. • They called themselves “Aryans” or “noble people.” • They established small herding and agricultural communities throughout northern India. • Their migrations took place over several centuries. • Intermarried and laid social and cultural foundations that influenced Indian society to present day

  28. VerdicAGe • Hymns and Poems • Religious Prayers • Magic Spells • Gods and Goddesses

  29. What do the Mouth, Arms, Thighs, and Feet Represent?

  30. Brahmins Priests Kshatriyas Warriors Vaishyas Herders, Farmers, Artisans, Merchants Sudras (Non-Aryan) Farm Workers, Servants, Laborers Dalits (Outside the Caste System) Did work others did not want

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