PPT-Indus River Valley and China

Geography of Indus River Valley Located on a subcontinent land mass that is apart from the rest of the continent Physical Features Mountain Ranges valleys and planes that hold 2 rivers Ganges and Indus . List some things that you feel would be needed for a civilization to be successful…. River Valley Civilizations. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. 9000 – 3000 Years Ago… . Advanced. Cities. List some things that you feel would be needed for a civilization to be successful…. River Valley Civilizations. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. 9000 – 3000 Years Ago… . Advanced. Cities. Chapter 3 - India. Indus River Valley Civilizations. I.) Indus River Valley Civilizations: also known by their two major cities: . Harappa. and Mohenjo-Daro that established around the fertile . Indus River Valley. Or…..where did it all begin?. 1. Indus River Valley (physical). Modern day Pakistan (2500 to 1500 BCE). Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Advanced cities with indoor plumbing. Agricultural . society. Un-Deciphered . ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA. Oldest known civilization. Cradle of Human Civilization. Old Testament . Nebuchadnezzar. Ziggurat (right). Hanging gardens. Geography. This civ rose in the valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.. The Big Idea. Indian civilization first developed on the Indus River.. Main Ideas. The geography of India includes high mountains, great rivers, and heavy seasonal rain.. Harappan. civilization developed along the Indus River.. 4 River Valley Civilizations. Fertile Crescent – Mesopotamia. Tigris. Euphrates. Egyptian Civilization. Nile River Valley (upper and lower Nile). Indus River. Harrapan. Mohen-jo Daro. Hwang He . Yellow River later civilizations focused on both Yangtze and Yellow River. Geography of South Asia. Mountains – Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalayas. Creates subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh). Indus and Ganges Rivers. Indus Ganges Plain (Around rivers). Deccan – narrow border of lush tropical land in southern India. Basic chronology. c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus. in what is now Pakistan . c. 2500 BCE: high point of the Indus Valley civilization. c. 2000 BCE: some Indus sites showing signs of decline. Warm Up/Review. Describe how Ancient Egypt dealt with their natural, environmental problems.. Evaluate how what happened in the New Kingdom relates to a modern day world issue.. Compare/Contrast Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt using the Top-Hat method. . Introduction. The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the world's first great urban civilizations. It flourished in the vast river plains and adjacent regions in what are now Pakistan and western India. . Do Now: . Farmer’s Activity. India is a . subcontinent. in South Asia.. The . Himalaya Mountains . separate India. From China.. This is a photograph of the famous. Khyber Pass. . This valley allowed. ANCIENT INDIA. Indus Valley Civilization. ARYAN INVASION THEORY . pros & Cons. Why it was believable. The “. arya. ” (noble ones) in the Vedas. The . Vedas. are Sanskrit – how did Sanskrit reach India?. 3000 BC - 1500 BC.  In 1922, archaeologists found something exciting! They found the remains of an ancient city called Harappa. They found another city, located 400 miles southwest of Harappa, called Mohenjo-Daro. Other ancient cities from the same period, arranged in the same way, have been found since. Collectively, this civilization is referred to as the Indus Valley Civilization (sometimes, the Harappan civilization). This civilization existed from about 3000-2,500 BCE to about 1500 BCE, which means it existed at about the same time as the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations..