Vocab
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is subcontinent?
Three bodies of water that surround the southern part of India.
What is the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal?
These mountains are the barrier between the Indus River Valley and Afghanistan.
What are the Hindu Kush Mountains?
This was one of the first major settlements in ancient India on the banks of the Indus River, in present day Pakistan.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
A strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer.
What is a monsoon?
What are the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats?
These mountains are north of India and the highest in the world.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
This is where most homes were located in Mohenjodaro.
What is the lower city?
A flat area of land that is elevated, or raised, above the land around it.
What is a plateau?
This river empties into the Bay of Bengal.
What is the Ganges River?
This geological feature in south central India is elevated or raised area of land that is flatter than a mountain.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
This was a great achievement of Mohenjo-Daro.
What is the advanced sewer system?
A fortress built to protect a city.
What is a citadel?
This River empties into the Arabian Sea.
What is the Indus River?
This river runs through the steep Himalayas, along the norther border of India.
What is the Brahmaputra?
This was used for religious rituals and built from waterproof mud bricks.
What was the Great Bath?
A place to store grain.
What is a granary?
This empire was the largest empire in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Gupta empire?
Name one geographical feature in the Gupta empire.
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These were the most mysterious of Mohenjo-Daro's artifacts.
What is the small stone seals?