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Ancient India and Persia

Chapter 5. Ancient India and Persia. A subcontinent is a large region of land that is separated from the rest of the. continent by a mountain range or other large landform. The country of India is. an example of a subcontinent.

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Ancient India and Persia

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  1. Chapter 5 Ancient India and Persia

  2. A subcontinent is a large region of land that is separated from the rest of the

  3. continent by a mountain range or other large landform. The country of India is

  4. an example of a subcontinent.

  5. According to plate tectonics, Earth’s surface is made of several slowly moving plates.

  6. The movement of these plates may cause changes such as the development of

  7. mountain ranges, basins, and bodies of water. Smaller plates pushing up under

  8. larger plates formed the Himalayas, and they are still rising.

  9. The Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world with Mount Everest its

  10. highest peak, which was measured in the late 1990’s and found to reach

  11. 29,045 feet into the sky.

  12. In some areas on Earth, moving plates cause earthquakes.

  13. South Asia is made up of eight different countries which include: India, Pakistan,

  14. Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives Islands

  15. or Maldives.

  16. Despite the differences in landforms, much of South Asia has a similar climate.

  17. Unlike us, South Asia only has three seasons. From October through February

  18. temperatures are mild to cool, from March through May they quickly shift to very hot, and from June

  19. through September comes the rainy season or monsoon

  20. season.

  21. Nearly all the year’s precipitation, or rain and snow, falls during the

  22. monsoon season. The monsoon refreshes the land and it is full of life again. Farmers

  23. depend on these rains for crops.

  24. Three great rivers flow through the subcontinent: the Indus, the Ganges, and the

  25. Brahmaputra. All begin in the Himalayas and fan out east and west through the

  26. Indo-Gangetic Plain or Indo-Ganges Plain. The rivers carry water and silt to

  27. the farmlands to irrigate and keeps the soil rich. The monsoons cause the water and silt

  28. to spread out farther. Barley, wheat, rice, peas, beans and other vegetables are

  29. some of the crops grown on the plain.

  30. Subsistence farming consists of families growing food for themselves or

  31. sometimes trading food with small groups of people in their villages.

  32. The Indus River Valley lies on the plain in Pakistan.

  33. South of the Indo-Ganges Plain the land narrows towards the point of a “diamond.”

  34. This region is called the Deccan Plateau which lies between the

  35. Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

  36. The Deccan Plateau is framed on the west and east by rugged mountains, the

  37. Western Ghats, and rolling mountains, the Eastern Ghats. Each of these

  38. mountain chains extend about 1000 miles in length. Here is a photo of Eastern.

  39. Photos now of the Western Ghats.

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