Ancient India

Architecture and mathematics were also achievements in the Gupta Empire. Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. Many of the old Gupta temples built more than 1,700 years ago still survive in northern India

Now this is a very hard question to answer, but you'd probably guess its average temperatre is quite high, because a Southern Asia is a very hot part of the world, and India is South Asian, and only Northern India isn't in the Tropic of Cancer, but the rest of it is Did you know: Asia is the biggest continent of each of the seven continents Did you know: Asia is so long that it goes from Arctic Weather in the north to boiling hot weather in the north. It also goes through the equator Did you know: Asia is so wide that in the Northern Hemisphere's winter, you can walk from Eastern Russia to Western Alaska or the other way round by crossing the Bering Strait Valley that freezes, and the distance from the two countries are at only 20 miles/32 kilometres, that's only 32,000 metres as there are 1,600 metres in a mile and 1,000 metres in a kilomtre. Did you know: Russia is mostly in Asia, but Russia is so big that in the west it stretches all the way to Eastern Europe, and it actually joins, unlike Russia and North America, but you know how close together they are. Did you know: Papua New Guinea is right on the southern tip of Asia, and it is half in Asia and half in Oceania. Did you know: A Eurasia Basin would be a place in between Europe and Asia. In the Arctic Ocean, there is a place called the Eurasia Basin, and it is the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean at nearly 17,500 feet. All the other ocean's deepest parts are over 20,000, because the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of each ocean You liked those facts. Well, if you liked them, you'll also like this. Copy and paste this website to find out about the Indian Climate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India#Temperature Now this is a very hard question to answer, but you'd probably guess its average temperatre is quite high, because a Southern Asia is a very hot part of the world, and India is South Asian, and only Northern India isn't in the Tropic of Cancer, but the rest of it is Did you know: Asia is the biggest continent of each of the seven continents Did you know: Asia is so long that it goes from Arctic Weather in the north to boiling hot weather in the north. It also goes through the equator Did you know: Asia is so wide that in the Northern Hemisphere's winter, you can walk from Eastern Russia to Western Alaska or the other way round by crossing the Bering Strait Valley that freezes, and the distance from the two countries are at only 20 miles/32 kilometres, that's only 32,000 metres as there are 1,600 metres in a mile and 1,000 metres in a kilomtre. Did you know: Russia is mostly in Asia, but Russia is so big that in the west it stretches all the way to Eastern Europe, and it actually joins, unlike Russia and North America, but you know how close together they are. Did you know: Papua New Guinea is right on the southern tip of Asia, and it is half in Asia and half in Oceania. Did you know: A Eurasia Basin would be a place in between Europe and Asia. In the Arctic Ocean, there is a place called the Eurasia Basin, and it is the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean at nearly 17,500 feet. All the other ocean's deepest parts are over 20,000, because the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of each ocean You liked those facts. Well, if you liked them, you'll also like this. Copy and paste this website to find out about the Indian Climate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India#Temperature
India has Tropical Weathers

Today's India's some Brahmans are not in true devotion which has been introduced by our old but bright culture.Today's devotional worship carried out by not only Brahmans but also by us is very wrong.We keep flowers and fruits in front of our god which has made by him.Instead of that we can give him a flower in form of a human being which has knowledge of our pure and luminous culture.Today's Brahmans are not well known about India's bright cultural knowledge.therefore they have busy in ritual.

The people of the Harappan civilization were unique compared to those of most other ancient civilization. They were monotheistic, they traded with Mesopotamia, and mummified the dead.

Mankind has been present in India since prehistoric times. Cave art there dates back that far. But he was probably nomadic for a long period before the first permanent settlements appeared there, which records indicate were almost 10,000 years ago. Need a link? Got one for ya to our friends at Wikipedia, where knowledge is free.

Some elements of Hinduism appear at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, shown in the sacred status of certain animals (especially cows) and certain trees (such as the pipal). The two cities seem to have had ritual bathing and yoga postures, sacred Hindu symbols (such as the swastika and the lingam), and some aspects of Hindu gods such as Siva and the Mother Goddess (Devi), so many scholars believe that at least some from of Hinduism already existed in these ancient cities.

Harappa was located in a river valley with rich soil for good farmland and pastures. The Harappans traded gold, gems, grain, cotton cloth, bronze items and other things of value with Egypt and Mesopotamia. There were skilled artisans in Harappa who specialized is making ceramics, stone seals, tools, statues and engraved objects. These things helped make Harappa prosperous.

While the Indus River itself provided water for drinking, agriculture and boats shipping freight, it was the people of the Indus Valley who made use of the river and the land to their benefit.

because they were looking for new trade routes

Hu En Tsung (or, Sung). He is credited for spreading Buddhism in most part of China.

Remains of a variety of children's toys have been found. The toys were made of clay. They include carts, bird-shaped whistles, rattles and figures of various animals.

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No, the Indus River Valley Civilization extended from Afghanistan to Bangladesh. South Asia is considered a subcontinent, but the IVC was bigger than South Asia and did not extend into South India.

There was lots of fertile land and it was very easy to plant crops. There was also lot's of water for animals and to irrigate crops. They used the natural resources and built houses and things the would need in their daily life.

The Indians practiced inoculation or injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defences to a disease. By fighting off this small dose, the body learns to protect itself. For people who were injured, Indian doctors could perform surgery. Indian interest in astronomy, the study of stars and planets, dated back to early times as well.

The Aryan invasion of India never occurred. It was a theory developed by Max Mueller to explain similarities between European and Indian languages and people. DNA research later showed that Aryan people, Dravidian people, and most Europeans are all descended from a small group of women who lived in South India around 50,000 years ago.

the leaders in ancient India were mainly the kings (rajahs). They had their own palaces where everyone would get togather to make decisions on laws. After they king dies his oldest son becomes the next king. If he has two sons then the second son would become the king when the first sons dies.

The Arthashastra, dating from the 400 BCE, and the Manusmriti, from 100 CE, were influential laws in Indian.

1. Arthashastra deals in detail with the disciplines required for a wise and virtuous king.

2. Manusmriti contains laws, rules and codes of conduct to be applied by individuals, communities and nations.

The classes, or castes, of ancient India were the brahmins, kshatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. The brahmins were the priest class, the kshatriyas the ruler and warrior class, the vaisyas the merchants, artisans, farmers, etc., and the sudras the peasants and laborers. There were also the "untouchables." They were the people who did not belong to any of the formal castes, and were thus looked down upon. They were typically given the occupations that members of the other castes found dishonorable or unclean.

Because one of the first cities was called Harappa.

The first people seem to have reached India from Africa around 40,000 BC. At first they were hunters and gatherers, like other people around the world at this time. But by around 4000 BC, these people had begun farming and by 2500 BC settled in the Indus river valley, where they began to live in cities and use irrigation to water their fields. This is a little later than in West Asia, probably because India was not as crowded as West Asia at this time. A lot of people think that the reason they began to farm, and then build cities was that a gradual warming trend was making it harder to get water, and harder to find wild plants to eat, every year. So every year more and more people moved into the Indus river valley, where there was still plenty of water. When it got really crowded there, people began to build cities.

There were two main cities that we know of, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) away. Both are in modern Pakistan. The people of these cities lived in stone houses two and three stories high, and had sewage systems. They used bronze tools. They may have learned to make bronze from the Sumerians.

The Harappa people used an early form of writing based on hieroglyphs, like the Egyptians. But we can't read it, because there isn't very much left of it.

By around 2000 BC, though, the Harappan civilization had collapsed. We don't know what caused this collapse. Most people think the most likely reason is that the warming trend continued until there wasn't enough water even in the Indus river valley to support these cities and the farmers who fed them. Some people probably starved to death, while others moved up into the hills, where it was cooler and some rain fell.

But by 1500 BC, the Indus river valley saw an invasion of Indo-Europeans, like similar invasions in Greece and Italy a little earlier.

Religion plays a major role in the Indian way of life. Rituals, worship, and other religious activities are very prominent in an individual's daily life; it is also a principal organizer of social life. The degree of religiosity varies among individuals

Yes of course, a country could not exist without merchants. The Indians were in fact so expert at this that they ran stores and business all over the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands, including East Africa.

It lasted for 2,000 years and was peaceful. They had South Asia's earliest writing system, planned cities, Metallurgy, agriculture and trade with Egypt and Sumer.

The Harappans were the earliest people to grow COTTON. They spun the cotton and wove it into cloth. Other plants that the Harappans cultivated were barley, wheat, peas, melons, and dates.