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Monsoons in Ancient India

How Monsoons Affected Life in Ancient India

Monsoons would bring much needed rain that farmers require for their crops in a hot climate. When monsoon came either too early or late in a season, it would affect the agriculture of Ancient India. Although providing water was a benefit of monsoons, they also could be detrimental when severe monsoons did massive damage to land and caused death. It also caused floods and the destruction of buildings.

Introduction to Monsoons

How the geography of a region affect the way people live

In much of ancient India, it was hot and humid and the climate was heavily influenced by India’s monsoons. Most of the year, it was very dry and sunny in India. Everything got hot and dusty and brown. But around May, clouds would start to gather, and it would get very muggy and heavy-feeling, and everybody would feel like they were waiting for something to happen. And then one day finally it would start raining, all at once. Buckets and buckets of water would fall. That was the monsoon. Unfortunately, the Indian ocean would bring in monsoon winds which caused terrible floods. Although it seems like Ancient India wasn't a good place to settle, monsoons actually helped develop one of the world's earliest civilization.

Geography has a lot to do with how people live. Geography doesn't just determine whether humans can live in a certain area or not, it also determines people's lifestyles, as they adapt to the available food and climate patterns. To really know how geography affects life, you need to break it down into subcategories. Geography affects the way people live by, socialism, Land Formation, Soil, Water Access and Climate. One of the most important subcategories is socialism. Without socialism, our ancestors wouldn't be able to tell friend from foe. That wouldn't help the civilization to develop. Other subcategories include, soil, water, climate, and land features. If ancient civilizations hadn't picked to settle near fertile soil or a patch of land with plethora amount of water, they wouldn't have develop into the civilizations today.

How monsoons still affect Indian life today

Monsoons still affect India today too. Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on the rains, especially crops like cotton, rice, and coarse grains. A delay of a few days in the arrival of the monsoon can, badly affect the economy. However, most major cities are often adversely affected as well. The roads, already shoddy, take a battering each year, houses and streets at the bottom of slopes and beside rivers are flooded, and the sewers and the rare hurricane drain start to back up and pour out toxic filth rather than drain it away. It also cause terrible floods that can cause severe damage property and life.

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