THE ANCIENT WORLD TEXTBOOK

Ancient India Page 94-100

1. What Mountain range separated India from the rest of Asia?

Himalayas

2. What is a Subcontinent? Is a large landmass that juts out

from a continent.

3. India’s climate is dominated by ______________, strong winds and rains that blow across the region at certain times of

the year.

Monsoons

4. Why do the people of India depend on Monsoon

Season? The people

depend on the summer monsoon for life-giving rain.

Provides water for crops

5. The _____________ mountain range was the pathway for many of the

earliest inhabitants of northern India.

Hindu Kush

6. What 2 rivers have their source in the mountains and are fed by melting snow and

rain. __________&_____________ these rivers also make farming possible.

Indus Ganges

7. What is the name of the river valley where the first known

settlement of India was found?

Indus River Valley

8. For 1,000 years in ancient India planned cities flourished in this valley. What is the name of the

most famous city?

Mohenjo Daro

9. What often happens to the Indus River?

The Indus River often floods during the Monsoon Season,so when they planned Mohenjo Daro they built it on high mounds of Earth.

10. These planned cities were arranged very strategically, city

streets were in a __________. Homes and _________ were along the street and in

the middle was fortress called a __________.

Squares Stores

Citadel

11. Why was Mohenjo Daro so much cleaner than other cities

of the time?

They had a functional sewer system under the brick streets of the city that carried away household waste.

12. Mehenjo Daro’s ruins are located in present-day

country of ___________.Pakistan

13. What may have led to the mysterious decline of the

Indus River Valley civilizations starting about 2,000 B.C.E..

Around that time Indus River Valley farmers began to abandon their land. It could have been famine, climate change, an earthquake, or was it invaders from the north.

14. Invaders named ___________, which means “___________” or

“_____________”. They ____________ or ___________ from central Asia and

waves of these _____________ herders swept into India.

Aryans“Noble” “Highborn”

Migrated Moved

Nomadic

15. How come the Aryans were able to overrun the people of the

Indus River Valley?

The People of the Indus River Valley were no match for the Aryan Warriors armed with bows, arrows , and axes; also their horse-drawn Chariots.

16. After the Aryans conquered the Indus River Valley they moved across Northern India and into the ___________ River Valley. Ganges

17. What did they learn to do?

They learned to make tools and weapons out of IRON

18. Aryan Life comes from religious books called __________ and this is where we get know a lot about the Aryans existence.

Vedas

19. What are the 3 Classes of Aryan society?

1. Priest –religious traditions

2. Warriors – Fought

3. Ordinary people Worked

20. Explain the Caste System and how it worked and how it

got more complicated. Each Caste had a

special job and duty to perform. People had to stay in the same caste system as their parents. It got more complicated as it grew and too many people were in the same caste.