THE MOST AWESOMEST ANCIENT INDIA PRESENTATION

STANDARDS

• I CAN EXPLAIN HOW GEOGRAPHY AND PEOPLE CHANGING THE LAND HAVE INFLUENCED THE PAST
• I CAN IDENTIFY HOW CULTURE AND THE SPREADING OF CULTURE EFFECT HOW SOCIETIS ARE STARTED AND MAINTAINED

India is by the sea

The Himalayas divided India from China

There are many types of soil in India

india vs Mesopotamia

THE similarities OF INDIA AND MESOPOTAMIA's geography

• they both are by rivers (tigres and Eurphrates, gagnes)
• they both have rock formations like indias Deccan plateau
• they're soil in both places is very fertile and rich with silt

THE differences OF INDIA AND MESOPOTAMIA's geography

• india has every single type of geography
• india has a desert

how the people of india and Mesopotamia changed the land

similartes

• Deforestation
• Farming the land
• irrigation

INDIA DIFFERENCES

• made holes in the ground to fill with dead bodies
• destroyed the top layer of soil to get at the good soil
• Used up natural resources
• Added invasive plants

mesopotamia DIFFERENCES

• taking the seeds of plants before winter than the Assyrians attacked and destroyed all the seeds making tons of plant species extinct
• digging through the ground to create canals to move the water and prevent flooding

WHAT IS THE WEATHER IN INDIA?

INDIA'S SPRING IS CALLED POST MONSOON AND IS FILLED WITH RAIN

WINTER IN BOTH PLACES IS FREEZING WITH UNPREDICTABLE BURST OF RAIN AND SNOW

INDIA'S FALL IS CALLED MONSOON IT IS EARTHS WETTEST SEASON

SUMMER IS HOTTEST IN APRIL AND IT IS WORST BECAUSE HOT FAST DRY WIND BLOWS AND

HOW ARE INDIA AND MESOPOTAMIA AFFECTED BY ITS WEATHER?

INDIA WEATHER eFFECT

• heat spells and droughts kill people and animals
• flooding wipes out crops, homes, and starts mudslides
• hurricanes make living on the cost dangerous

MESOPOTAMIA WEATHER eFFECT

• heat spells wither crops but the rivers help animals and people
• floods forced people to make canals that change the flood into water for the crops floods also create swamps
• thunderstorms create lighting that strikes and causes forest fires and rock slides

resources

• http://ravidatar0.tripod.com
• http://india.mrdonn.org/geography.html
• http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/geography/home_set.html
• http://worldroom.tamu.edu/Presentations/India/Google%20Earth%20&%20Geograph...

resources cont.

• http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/geography/home_set.html
• http://www.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/ca/books/bkf3/reviews/pdfs/LS_6_03_01.pdf
• http://www.ancient.eu/Mesopotamia/
• http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/geography.html