October 22, 2008SWBAT: analyze the physical features

of India• Do Now:

• Where is India?

• What do you know about India?- make a list

• Homework: In a three sentence paragraph answer “How did geographic factors impact the civilization that arose in India?

October 23, 2008SWBAT: analyze the geography of

India

• Do Now: take out a clean sheet of paper to begin notes immediately

• Homework: In a three sentence paragraph answer “How did geographic factors impact the civilization that arose in India?

The Geography of India• Indian Subcontinent is shaped like a

triangle hanging from the southern ridge of Asia

• The Far north has the Himalayan Mountains- highest mountains in the world

• South of the mountains is the Ganges River

• To the west is the Indus River Valley, a dry plateau

• The Deccan Plateau is dry and hilly• The coasts are lush plains

The Weather of India

• Monsoon- a seasonal wind pattern in Southern Asia– It blows warm, moist air from the southwest

during the summer, this brings heavy rains, which farmers depend on

– and another blows cold, dry air from the northeast during the winter

India’s First Civilization

• Early civilizations emerged along the river valleys- just like where? Why?

• The Indus River Valley support a flourishing civilization that extended hundreds of miles from the Himalayas to the coast of the Arabian Sea

• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were the two largest settlements that archaeologists have found

October 24, 2008SWBAT: discuss ancient Indian

Civilizations• Do now: from packet being handed out,

answer questions 6 and 7

• Homework: finish packet for homework

October 27, 2008SWBAT: analyze the significance of

the Caste System

• Do now: Take out homework, fill in caste triangle using homework

• Homework: article of Presidential issues, fill in chart that goes along with it

October 29, 2008SWBAT: discuss who lived in India

and where they came from

• Do now: using your homework packet from over the weekend,

• who were the Aryans? • Where did they come form?• Why were the able to come into power?• What were their achievements?

• Homework: answer questions from Buddhism packet

• quiz next week

The Aryans

• Indo-European nomadic people moved from their homeland in Central Asia

• They moved along what mountain range?• They excelled at the art of war• They conquered the Happans and

eventually moved east from the Indus River valley to the fertile plain of the Ganges, then to the Deccan Plateau, throughout India

The Aryans• They were pastoral people until the

introduction of iron- what do you think they began to do?

• They grew wheat, barley, and millet in the north. Rice in the river valleys, and grain, vegetables and cotton and spices in the south

• Developed Sanskrit- what is this? What did it allow them to do?

• From early writings, we found that the India was full of wring kingdoms

The Caste System

• A rigid set of social categories that determined not only a person’s occupation and economic potential, but his or her position in society. Also based on skin color

• Who was at the top?

Hinduism• Beliefs came form the Aryans around 1500B.C.• God was the single force in the universe,

Brahman• Reincarnation a soul is reborn into another

being after death, the soul goes through many existences on earth before it meets Brahman

• Karma, the force/actions that determines how the person will be reborn

• Dharma is ruled by karma. It is a law that requires all people to do their earthly duties, depending on status in society, the higher you are the more that is expected of you

October 30, 2008SWBAT: finish Hinduism and begin

Buddhism

• Do Now: Take out Homework– Answer: How is a person’s Caste determined

• Homework: Answer questions in Buddhism Packet on page 174 and 175

• Quiz Monday on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism,

• Test Thursday/ Friday on India and China

Buddhism

• Appeared in northern India in the 6th century B.C.

• Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha– What does this mean?

• The goal of Buddhists is to attain Nirvana– What is this?

• He believed in four Noble Truths– What are they?

October 31, 2008SWBAT: finish analyzing the

religions of India

• Do Now: take out Buddhism Packet,

• Answer questions on Jainism sheet

• Homework: Study for quiz using chart and readings on different religions

Jainism• Only 5% of India's pop. is Jainism• It arose as a protest of the Caste System• Believe the soul will go through rebirth

until it is free from sin• Believe that karma is the evil that prevents

the soul from freeing itself from reincarnation

• Only monks have a chance at reaching Nirvana

• Believe in non-violence, ahimsa• Will not farm in fear of killing something

Sikhism• About 2% of India's pop.

• Rejects the Hindu Caste System

• Believe in one God and reincarnation

• They must always have the 5 Ks

• They must be able to defend tehir faith if necessary, usually they are the best soldiers in India’s army

Hinduism Buddhism Sikhism Jainism

Began

Founder

God (s)

Basic Beliefs

Believe in Reincarnation

Final Goal

November 3, 2008SWBAT: take a quiz on India’s religions

and finish India’s civilizations

• Do Now: clear desks for quiz

• Homework: questions on pages 39-43 in China packet