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The Geography of India. For thousands of years geography has made South Asia a crossroads. Trade routes brought merchants and missionaries.

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Page 1: The Geography of India. For thousands of years geography has made South Asia a crossroads. Trade routes brought merchants and missionaries.

The Geography of India

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For thousands of years geography has made South Asia a crossroads.

Trade routes brought merchants and missionaries

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Two major world religions began in South Asia:

•Hinduism

•Buddhism

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2500-1500 B.C.E Indus Valley Civilization started from immigrants from Iran

They built cities such as Mahenjo-Daro which was highly advanced.

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Roots of Hinduism

•1500 B.C.E Aryans invaded from central Asia

•The Aryans drove out the Dravidians

•The Aryans brought with them the idea of a caste system.

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Caste system is a rigid class system. A person cannot move between castes or classes.

Hindus believe in reincarnation

Cows are sacred.

Sacred writing of the Hindus are the Vedas

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The Caste System

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The Brahma Cow

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Vishnu

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Shiva

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dharma- every person’s moral duty

karma- good is rewarded: bad is punished

reincarnation- every person is reborn until they are released from the cycle of rebirth.

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The Ganges River is sacred to the Hindus.

•Highly polluted

•Bath in the river to purify themselves

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Buddhism founded about the same time as Hinduism.

Founder Siddhartha Gautama

Leader today is the Dali Lama

Buddhist believe in reincarnation.

People reach the state of Nirvana

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Since the mid 1700’s Britain controlled India

Britain took away a thriving textile industry and exported the raw cotton to mills in England

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Britain expected the Indians to purchase their ready made textile products.

Many Indian textile workers lost their jobs.

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During the late 1800’s Indians developed a strong sense of nationalism.

Many Indians were educated in Europe.

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One of those people was Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi.

He led non violent resistance to England.

Indians boycotted British Cloth.

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1946 England agreed to give India its independence if they could agree on a government.

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The conflict in India was between the Muslims and the Hindus

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The only solution was to partition or divide India into Pakistan and India.

The Hindus occupied India and the Muslims occupied Pakistan

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Later conflicts developed between East and West Pakistan and the country of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) was created in 1971

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Within the past few years, Pakistan and India have tested nuclear weapons.

They are in conflict of a portion India known as Kashmir.

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Bell Work 4/20

• Using your notes, textbook, and class discussion; in a short paragraph (at least 3 sentences) discuss Kashmir.

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Taj Mahal

• Located in Agra, India, not far from New Delhi

• Built by a Muslim emperor in the 17th century as a mausoleum for his wife

• Fell into disrepair when Muslim empire collapsed and Hindus took over

• Recently restored to former glory; now a symbol of national pride; major tourist site

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New Delhi, India

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New Delhi, India

• Capital of India; not far from the Taj Mahal

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