Ancient Indian Civilization

Ancient India was one of the first civilizations formed in the world. It formed on the banks of the Indus river. Life for the ancient Indian person revolved around 6 different categorizes, Geography, where it is located and its climate.Religion, the civilizations ways worship of gods and how that fit into everyday life. Government, the ways the people were ruled over. Social class, the status of each person in Indian society and how they were put into that status or Caste. Its writing, Sanskrit, and what they wrote and why. Its conflicts with other empires and how that led to the formation of other empires. Ancient Indian life was very dependant on what kind of family that a child was born into not what that child has the potential to do.
India is located in the eastern hemisphere of the world, it borders China, Pakistan Bangladesh and Nepal. India has the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south. The temperatures are very different; in the north there is steady snowfall and cool temperatures. In the south the temperature is warm and arid. Early Indian civilizations formed on the banks of the Indus River. And branched out to almost the entire subcontinent. The Indus River starts in …show more content…
Later tribes merged to form organized provinces. For example the Mauryan Empire. The Mauryan Empire was formed after Chandragupta took over India from the Macedonians in 304 B.C. With its formation, there was the invention of provincial administration. A provincial administration is when an empire is split into provinces. In those provinces there were its own individual government that controls and watches over the people living there. The individual governments in the provinces are all under the control of one large government. This system is relatively the same as the system used in the United States . To help fuel the empire, a taxing system was placed in all the