EARLY+INDIAN+CIVILIZATION

__**DISCUSS INDIA'S FIRST CIVILIZATIONS**__
 * What is known about India's first civilizations? Who were the Aryans? When did they arrive and how did they influence the development of Indian culture? Consult Wikipedia for additional facts if you think you need to.**

1. India's first civilizations were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. They were almost exactly the same, and about 35,000 people could fit their homes in the two cities. (kbe)

2. When the Aryans arrived, they brought their own gods for which to worship. The Hindus were open to this and they even adopted them into their religion. (zba)

3. The first places ever settled in India are along the Indus River Valley (currently Pakistan today): Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Like many, these ancient cities thrived and were prosperous, but then abandoned. This may have simply been because the environment couldnt support all of the people, or that silt naturally built up as a natural dam on a regular basis and flooded the fields. People had to leave in order to survive from agriculture. There is also another possibility that people from the outside (Aryans/Indo Europians) came in and invaded these cities. (kmu)

4. When the Aryans arrived in India, they implemented a rigid caste stystem in order to maintain their position of power. This system eventually became a stable of Hindu culture. (pgei)

5. The Aryans arrived in India about 1500 BCE changing India's history. They called themselves the "noble ones". (maus)

6. The Aryans spoke Sanskirt, a language distantly related to English, Latin, and Celtic. (maus)

7. The first civilizations started farming early in their civilization. The first Indians lived in mud brick houses. (maus)

8. The first civilizations were located in the Indus Valley about 2500 BCE. (maus)

9. The Aryians orginally settled in the lands between the Caspian and Black Seas and Iran. (maus)

10. The Aryans were a group of warriors who invaded India. They easily defeated the Indian farmers and soon established their own laws and systems of government. (AGr)

11. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa thrived until the Aryans conquered them and forced them to move south. (eda)

12. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, although separated by 350 miles, were practically identical pertaining to their architectural aspects. (eda)

13. The word Arya means noble or honorable. The word Aryan was adopted to include not only the Indo-European, but also the Indo-Iranian. (rsc)

14. Aryans were a group of Indo-Europeans migrating eastwards. They came in throught the Khyber Pass and quickly took over the Northern part of India, eventually extending down into South India. (hpo)

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