Unit 1: RVC’s Day 4

1. Unit 1: RVC’s Day 4 Objective: WH.H.2.1- Apply the characteristics of civilization to Egypt and India Warm Up: Must all great civilizations fall?

2. Unit 1: River Valley Civ’s Day 5- Indus Valley Civilization

3. Geography of the Indian Subcontinent • Natural barriers? • Indus and Ganges Rivers

5. Earliest Arrivals • Evidence for agriculture dates to 7000 BCE • Earliest cities in the Indus Valley date to around 3200 BCE

6. Think Like a Historian Activity • Look at the handouts provided with your partner(s) next to you. • Answer the following questions with your partner in your notes: • What do you think this artifact was used for? • What does your artifact(s) tell us about the lives of the people in the Indus Valley? • Be prepared to share with the class

7. Artifact A

8. Artifact B

9. Artifact C

10. Artifact D

11. Artifact E

12. Artifact F

13. Artifacts G and H

14. Harappan Civilizations • Started around 2500 BCE in modern day Pakistan • How you describe the characteristics of the city to the right? • Largest cities were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa

16. Culture and Trade • Developed a written language but it has not been decoded • Artifacts show nonessential goods (toys) and a lack of weapons • Religion is believed to play a big role, government was probably a theocracy • Harappan seals used as trademarks, show networks of trade that stretched to Mesopotamia

17. Decline and End • Cities started to fall into decay • could have been an ancient river (Sarswati) dried up • Other natural disaster • Aryan invasion • Alternative theory could have been another Indian civilization from the south invading

18. Later Indian Civilizations • The Aryans • Origin is a highly debated topic • Bring the Caste System to India

19. The Caste System Today

20. Crash Course with John Green