Mountains
These two mountain ranges acted like tall natural walls that protected India.
What are the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush?
These two rivers begin in the Himalayas and helped early civilizations grow.
What are the Indus and the Ganges Rivers?
This desert in northwest India was extremely hot and had very little water.
What is the Thar Desert?
These two seas border India and helped protect it from invasions.
What are the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea?
This is the one thing that identical do not share
What are the same fingerprints?
Melting snow from the Himalayan mountains provided this important resource for farming
What is fresh water?
This rich material carried by rivers helped the land become fertile for farming.
What is silt or rich soil?
Like the mountains, the desert also acted as this, keeping some invaders out.
What is a natural barrier?
Over time, cities along the coast became important centers for this type of exchange.
What is trade?
This is something that increases by 1.8 seconds every 100 years
What is the length of a day?
This natural disaster sometimes destroyed homes and villages in the mountains.
What are earthquakes?
People built these systems to help control water during droughts and floods.
What are irrigation systems?
Because the desert was so harsh, most people chose to live in these types of places instead.
What are areas near rivers or flat, fertile plains?
People traded things like spices, cotton, and jewelry with other civilizations using this method.
What is sea travel or ocean trade?
This word means the fear of long words
What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
Because life in the mountains was so hard, most people chose to live in these areas instead.
What are valleys or areas near rivers?
This ancient civilization developed along the Indus River
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
Traders usually avoided the Thar Desert, which affected how these were created.
What are trade routes?
At first, traveling by sea was dangerous because these could destroy ships and villages.
What are storms?
This is how far you (on the Earth) travel each day around the sun
What is 2.5 million kilometers? (1.553 million miles)
These mountains protected India but also limited this type of contact with other cultures.
What is trade and travel?
Seasonal flooding and droughts sometimes caused these serious problems.
What is destruction of homes and starvation?
The desert made this activity difficult, which limited movement across the region.
What is travel or trade?
Areas far from the coast experienced this because they were not connected by sea trade.
What is isolation?
This popular building toy can withstand more compression weight than concrete.
What are LEGOS? (you can build a tower 2.2 miles high before the bricks will fail)