The climate’s impact on modern India
- Fragile climate condition and damage by the global warming.
- The destruction of nature put bad effect on the production from India agriculture.
- The contradictory of protection of environment and development of economics.
- The solutions to the modern problems.
Inventions and Impact on Society Today
Ancient indians are the reason we have somethings today. Although their civilizations eventually faded away,they left behind great inventions according to Inventions.com. For example the invention of chess. Other inventions were rulers made of ivory and 6 sided dice. ancient indians were also the first to use math.
*Gender Roles*
- Men do heavy work such as plowing, clearing trees, building homes
- Men brought home the income
- Men are considered the leaders
- Women were the housewives; cooked, cleaned
- Children went to school
- Most boys stopped attending school to help the father with his daily work
- Girls eventually were married off by whomever her father chose
*Lothal India*
- One of the most prominent cities of ancient Indus Valley Civilization
- Means the 'The City of Dead'
- 4,400,000 year old Harappan civilization
- Most important port and a center of the bead industry, gems, and valuable ornaments
- These products expanded the far corners of West Africa and Africa
- Lothal was surrounded by a massive brick wall
- As of today, the city's remnants are still being obliterated
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- wagons
- horse drawn chariots
- -horses symbolized power
- tulwar-curved sword
- khanjar- steel axe
- katar- form of dagger
- Indian warriors carried around shield called a dhal made of steel or hide. They wore helmets called tops with 'curtains' of chain mail to protect the neck. They also wore a metal 'sleeve' called a dastania to protect the lower arm.
- Indians also fought with matchlock muskets, which they called bandukh toradas.
*Everyday Tools*
- The most popular tool in India was the Plough
- Initially it was used for soil preparation and for sowing seeds or planting
- During that time it was used to be pulled by humans and later using cattle like oxens and bullocks
- In modern day ploughs are attached to tractors
- Benefits of ploughing land:
- turn over the top surface of earth
- uproots weeds growing near the crops
- making soil more porous and easier for planting
- dry climate lead people gathered around the area along the river
- the snow of Himalaya mountains made India has much water in spring, that good for the growth of barely and wheat.
- In ancient India. Many kinds of crop and livestock. It was the almost the first country to plant cotton.
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Ancient Indians' Lifestyle
the agricultural ways of India
- In vedic India. People know livestock farming and irrigate.
- In age of maurya dynasty. India pay much attention to the construction of water conservancy project and set officer to manage, Which make India prosperous
- Some techniques of agriculture transformed to China along the Silk Roads