October 22, 2008
SWBAT: analyze the physical features
of India
• Do Now:
• Where is India?
• What do you know about India?- make a
list
• Homework: In a three sentence paragraph
answer “How did geographic factors
impact the civilization that arose in India?
October 23, 2008
SWBAT: analyze the geography of
India
• Do Now: take out a clean sheet of paper to
begin notes immediately
• Homework: In a three sentence paragraph
answer “How did geographic factors
impact the civilization that arose in India?
The Geography of India
• Indian Subcontinent is shaped like a
triangle hanging from the southern ridge of
Asia
• The Far north has the Himalayan
Mountains- highest mountains in the world
• South of the mountains is the Ganges
River
• To the west is the Indus River Valley, a dry
plateau
• The Deccan Plateau is dry and hilly
• The coasts are lush plains
The Weather of India
• Monsoon- a seasonal wind pattern in
Southern Asia
– It blows warm, moist air from the southwest
during the summer, this brings heavy rains,
which farmers depend on
– and another blows cold, dry air from the
northeast during the winter
India’s First Civilization
• Early civilizations emerged along the river
valleys- just like where? Why?
• The Indus River Valley support a
flourishing civilization that extended
hundreds of miles from the Himalayas to
the coast of the Arabian Sea
• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were the two
largest settlements that archaeologists
have found
October 24, 2008
SWBAT: discuss ancient Indian
Civilizations
• Do now: from packet being handed out,
answer questions 6 and 7
• Homework: finish packet for homework
October 27, 2008
SWBAT: analyze the significance of
the Caste System
• Do now: Take out homework, fill in caste
triangle using homework
• Homework: article of Presidential issues,
fill in chart that goes along with it
October 29, 2008
SWBAT: discuss who lived in India
and where they came from
• Do now: using your homework packet from over
the weekend,
• who were the Aryans?
• Where did they come form?
• Why were the able to come into power?
• What were their achievements?
• Homework: answer questions from Buddhism
packet
• quiz next week
The Aryans
• Indo-European nomadic people moved
from their homeland in Central Asia
• They moved along what mountain range?
• They excelled at the art of war
• They conquered the Happans and
eventually moved east from the Indus
River valley to the fertile plain of the
Ganges, then to the Deccan Plateau,
throughout India
The Aryans
• They were pastoral people until the
introduction of iron- what do you think they
began to do?
• They grew wheat, barley, and millet in the
north. Rice in the river valleys, and grain,
vegetables and cotton and spices in the
south
• Developed Sanskrit- what is this? What
did it allow them to do?
• From early writings, we found that the
India was full of wring kingdoms
The Caste System
• A rigid set of social categories that
determined not only a person’s occupation
and economic potential, but his or her
position in society. Also based on skin
color
• Who was at the top?
Hinduism
• Beliefs came form the Aryans around 1500B.C.
• God was the single force in the universe,
Brahman
• Reincarnation a soul is reborn into another
being after death, the soul goes through many
existences on earth before it meets Brahman
• Karma, the force/actions that determines how
the person will be reborn
• Dharma is ruled by karma. It is a law that
requires all people to do their earthly duties,
depending on status in society, the higher you
are the more that is expected of you
October 30, 2008
SWBAT: finish Hinduism and begin
Buddhism
• Do Now: Take out Homework
– Answer: How is a person’s Caste determined
• Homework: Answer questions in Buddhism
Packet on page 174 and 175
• Quiz Monday on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
Sikhism,
• Test Thursday/ Friday on India and China
Buddhism
• Appeared in northern India in the 6th
century B.C.
• Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha
– What does this mean?
• The goal of Buddhists is to attain Nirvana
– What is this?
• He believed in four Noble Truths
– What are they?
October 31, 2008
SWBAT: finish analyzing the
religions of India
• Do Now: take out Buddhism Packet,
• Answer questions on Jainism sheet
• Homework: Study for quiz using chart and
readings on different religions
Jainism
• Only 5% of India's pop. is Jainism
• It arose as a protest of the Caste System
• Believe the soul will go through rebirth
until it is free from sin
• Believe that karma is the evil that prevents
the soul from freeing itself from
reincarnation
• Only monks have a chance at reaching
Nirvana
• Believe in non-violence, ahimsa
• Will not farm in fear of killing something
Sikhism
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About 2% of India's pop.
Rejects the Hindu Caste System
Believe in one God and reincarnation
They must always have the 5 Ks
They must be able to defend tehir faith if
necessary, usually they are the best
soldiers in India’s army
Hinduism
Began
Founder
God (s)
Basic Beliefs
Believe in Reincarnation
Final Goal
Buddhism
Sikhism
Jainism
November 3, 2008
SWBAT: take a quiz on India’s religions
and finish India’s civilizations
• Do Now: clear desks for quiz
• Homework: questions on pages 39-43 in
China packet