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Title: Essential Question:


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  • Essential Question
  • I will create an acrostic for the word EGYPT or
    INDUS using the characteristics of that
    civilization
  • Warm-Up Question
  • Name 2 similarities between Egypt Mesopotamian
    civilizations
  • Name 2 differences

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The Indus River Valley (India)
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India began along the Indus River, which flooded
left behind fertile soil
Seasonal monsoons caused summer rains floods
The people were well protected on the Indian
subcontinent by the oceans, mountains,
deserts that surrounded the Indus River Valley
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Lasting Contributions
  • Advanced cities
  • Indus cities were laid out in a grid system with
    high walls citadel of major buildings

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Lasting Contributions
  • Specialized Workers
  • Indian society was divided by the caste system
    which divided people based on their purity in
    Hinduism

Caste System Video
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Lasting Contributions
  • Government
  • Little is known about Indus government other than
    they were ruled by kings

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Lasting Contributions
  • Religion
  • Believed in a polytheistic religion called
    Hinduism
  • Hindus believe that ones soul is reborn until
    moksha is achieved (reincarnation)
  • Moksha (enlightenment or nirvana) is the
    spiritual release from human form
  • A souls karma (good or bad deeds) effect
    reincarnation

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Lasting Contributions
  • Writing
  • Indus writing has not been fully translated so
    much of Indus life is still a mystery
  • Writing contained about 400 symbols that were
    both pictograms phonetic characters

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Lasting Contributions
  • Technology
  • Advanced plumbing Most houses had toilets
    private bathrooms connected to underground sewer
    systems
  • Standard, oven-baked bricks

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EGY P T
  • Create and acrostic for either the word EGYPT or
    INDUS using the characteristics of that
    civilization.

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