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Ancient India Map Worksheet

PART I. Map

DIRECTIONS: Please write in the name of the following geographical features in the correct location on the map

below. Use the map located on page 125 in your textbook to help you.

Bodies of Water Rivers Mountains Deserts Plateaus

- Arabian Sea - Brahmaputra River - Himalayas - Great Indian Desert - Deccan Plateau

- Bay of Bengal - Ganges River - Hindu Kush Mts

- Indian Ocean - Indus River - Eastern Ghats

- Vindhya Mts

- Western Ghats

PART II. Map Interpretation & Analysis

DIRECTIONS: Please use the map above to answer the questions below.

1. What is the main idea of this map, in other words what does this map show?

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2. When and where did farming begin in India?

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3. What were the names of the world’s first planned cities?

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4. How were the cities along the Indus River connected to the other cities in western India?

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5. THINKER: What could the people of the Indus Valley have done to prevent the flooding that eventually forced

them to abandon their cities?

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