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Early Civilizations of India

Early Civilizations of India . Chapter 7 section 3. Early Civilizations of India. 1. Indus Valley Civilizations From 2500 B.C to 1500 B.C. 2. Planned cities- carefully laid out in checkerboard pattern, & sewer system

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Early Civilizations of India

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  1. Early Civilizations of India Chapter 7 section 3

  2. Early Civilizations of India 1. Indus Valley Civilizations • From 2500 B.C to 1500 B.C. 2. Planned cities- carefully laid out in checkerboard pattern, & sewer system • Most people were farmers, probably first people to grow cotton and to tame chickens • Traded with people in the Middle East 3. Unable to decipher the meaning of their writing 4. Change in climate or invaders aided in the fall of the civilization – cause not known!

  3. Early Civilizations of India Aryans Arrive 5. Nomadic warlike people came from the Hindu Kush mountains through the Kyber pass. 6. Oral religious traditions know as the Vedas • They settled into villages Religious beliefs • Much later written language called Sanskrit. • Worshiped may gods (polytheistic)

  4. Social Classes of the Aryans 13. Four social classes called Varna 8. Ranking : Priests, Warriors, Landowners-merchants-herders, servants-peasants 10. Later this turned in the Caste system, social classes that you are born into ~ Priests still at the top but many more levels

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