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This map may hold clues to another possible answer. It shows groups of people in Central Asia known as Indo‐Europeans. How does the map help to suggest their importance in world history? | This map may hold clues to another possible answer. It shows groups of people in Central Asia known as Indo‐Europeans. How does the map help to suggest their importance in world history? | ||
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Throughout its early history, the Himalayas helped protect India from outside invaders. How does this image especially make that dramatically clear? How does this photo help to show why such river systems were so important in the rise of the earliest civilizations?
Most Indians consider the Ganges River to be sacred. Why do you think they might have come to view it as sacred? What are monsoons, and why do they have such big impact on life in India?
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What can you tell about the geography and climate of this region from the poster alone?
The poster shows that India's land is fertile, largely coastal, and life-bearing. While it shows some signs of luxurious life, not everyone is wealthy judging by the patched up boat and sail. Trade was likely a large part of life and many citizens probably held jobs as sailors.
Historians say many of India’s older traditions and beliefs survived more in southern India than in the north. Why do you suppose that was so?
South India is relaxed and pluralistic. It contains more natives, and the Aryans did not invade that far south. It is bordered by water and is less exposed to other cultures.
What else about the geographical features of southern India might explain why it was able to stay more isolated from outside influence than other regions of India?
South India borders the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. It is protected by the Himalayan Mountains and Deccan Plateau. The natural defenses of the country protect India's important cities.
-Lucy Elkins-
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The Indus River civilization is one of four ancient civilizations shown here. From this map, what major geographical feature did these civilizations have in common?
What details seem to reveal the most about the ruins in Illustration?
What details are hardest to interpret?
2 A These ruins are a sign this was a complex, highly organized civilization. Why do you think they are evidence of this?
2 B Some archaeologists think that washing may have had religious or ritual meaning. What do you think they mean by that?
What else can you surmise about this aspect of the Indus River civilization?
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The seals were meant to be impressed and leave marks. That is, they were a form of writing. What uses can you imagine for seals of this sort?
Seals of this sort likely had a similar use for what they are used for today- to sign letters or documents or to indicate who a person is. They could have also had an important use in agriculture because they could have indicated who owned which animals or food products. Because they were meant to be impressed and leave marks they probably were meant to indicate ownership. It is possible the could havehad a form of religious significance possibly relating to the gods or the calendar.
Charmon Corrections RB
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Can you think of some examples of catastrophic climate changes or natural disasters that would have been serious enough to wipe out an entire civilization?
One example of a catastrophe that could have wiped out an entire civilization was the ice age. Also, they could have been wiped out by a volcano, an earthquake, or if the monsoons stopped happening.
This map may hold clues to another possible answer. It shows groups of people in Central Asia known as Indo‐Europeans. How does the map help to suggest their importance in world history?
This map helps to show the importance of the Indo-Europeans by showing where they went. They spread all over Europe, and into Asia. This shows that they now inhabit many historically important sites.
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From the hymn shown here, what sort of god do you think Indra was supposed to be?
What attitude towards the god does this hymn take?
Many Hindus today believe Indra to be one of several forms taken by the Hindu deity Shiva. A 12th‐century CE statue of Shiva is shown here. What ideas about Shiva or Hinduism in general do you get from the way this statue is designed?
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This photo shows bullocks being honored during a South Indian rice‐harvest festival. How does this suggest links between Hindu religion and India’s long agrarian past?
What does this photo suggest about Hinduism and its relationship to India’s villages and traditional culture?
"'Page 10"'  Over time, Hinduism went beyond earlier Vedic beliefs to what some might call a more philosophical system of ideas. The drawing here depicts these deities—Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva (from left). How does this visual depiction express the notion that these are all different aspects of one another, and of Brahman?
The three statues depict the notion that they are all different many ways. They are three different statues that are dressed differently, which shows that they are different elements. The fact that they have the same face shows that they are similar but the difference in clothing shows that they are not the same.
Anna Brooks Pacha
