INDIAN CIVILIZATION

By:

Andrés Arboleda

Joshua Cháves

Vittorio Ferrazzi

Geography

The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by a Hugo mountain range called the Hymalayas

The subcontinent have 2 major river the Ganges And the Indus river Tropical climates are accompanied By several droughts dominates most of the subcontinent.

Time period

Stone Age (7000–3000 BC) Bronze Age (3000–1300 BC) Iron Age (1700–26 BC)Middle Kingdoms (1–1279) Late medieval age (1206–1596) Early modern period (1526–1858)Colonial period (1505–1961)Contemporary Period (1961-Present times)

Government

The Indian Civilization was governed by rajahs during its entire story

The English presence On India began in 1600, at the time Europeans demand for Indians goods

In 1800 many Indians had begun to question British rule, in 1930 Great Britain agreed to make India independence.

ECONOMY

The economy in this era was extremely vigorous, especially in trade, surpassing that in China and the Mediterranean world.

Merchants traded from the Roman Empire to Indonesia to China.

In India the produce products such as Cotton and sugar.

Beliefs

The Indians are Hinduisms the main gods are Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.

The 3 of are considered the Trimurti —the three aspects of the universal supreme God. These 3 symbolize the circle of Hinduism:

Brahma as creator, Vishnu as protector, and Shiva as destroyer.

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Technology

During these ages, the caste system, Sanskrit, and various belief systems were introduced. The caste system described many key features

of Indian society and its economy. The caste system has consisted of thousands of endogamous groups called Quoms. Brahmans of India envisaged the four well-known categories to classify the society

WRITING

o The first Indian script, developed in the Indus Valley around 2600 B.Co Later Indian scripts, like Brahmi and Kharosthi were developed to write both official and local languages

Art and Architecture

• Indians are great artist and have a natural talent. They are taught since children to draw their gods and to represent their cultures in paper.

• The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations

• They developed techniques in metallurgy and handicraft and produced copper, bronze, lead, and tin

Slavery

Powerful empires controlled india for much of its history.

First the Mughal Empire and then the British empire.

Rise

Two thousand five hundred years before Christ, in the Indus River valley the oldest civilizations in the Indian subcontinent.

This civilization was made up of a lot of towns and cities.

This Thanks to these Indus Valley cultures, begins the story of India.

India is a country now. This civilization never fall

CONTRIBUTIONS

1. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of  history.2. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC.

Golden Age

Many periods have been called golden periods in the History of India, because there were

different important achievements at different times.between the 4th century and 6th century is known as the Golden Age because of the large achievements Indians madein the 10th and 11th century the period saw

extensive achievements in architecture