INDIAN+CULTURE

__**THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN CULTURE**__
 * The development of culture is influenced by a variety of factors, and India's culture is so diverse that the influences affecting it must have been equally diverse and wide-ranging. Think about what some of them may have been.**

1. The unique geography of India is in itself an inportant influencing factor of India's diverse culture. The natural barriers of the Hindu Kush and the Himilaya mountains have allowed India culture to develope along interesting and unique courses. (pgei)

2.The large amount of land and few amount of people has ensured the diverse cultures in India along with the rivers and mountains separating the land. (jst)

3. The Deccan Plateau is also a geographical feature that effected the Indian culture. Dravidians were some of the first inhabitors of India and based their lifestyles of off living on the plateau. (moe)

4. The culture is influenced greatly by the seperation of people and the scarce interaction that they had with each other for long periods of time do to the natural barriers keeping the travel to a minimum. (wste)

5. The geography of India also created many diverse languages within the country. These languages were created because of isolation. (rsc)

6. Hinduism has been India's main religion for centuries and has shaped the ways in which people live.(bre)

7. India is the birthplace of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism although not all three religions thrive there today. (eda)

8. Hinduism was first brought up in India. Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world. (acl)

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10. The rise in Indian technology after their accomplishment of sending a space craft out of the Earth's atmosphere marks a huge step for India and its culture. They are now on their way to the moon. (hma)

11. The Aryan invaders brought into India the caste system with them. This system has shaped the way Indians lived their lives. (Agr)

12. The syncretism of the religions of the native Indias and the invading Aryans formed India's oldest and largest religion, Hinduism. (KSKR)

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