Ancient India -- Achievements

Multiple Choice

Which two rivers helped farming villages happen in India?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Indus and Ganges

Multiple Choice

Which mountains separate India from China?

• Himilayas

• Heralayas

Multiple Choice

The tallest mountain peak in the world is:

• Mount Everest

• Mount Washington

• Mount Denali

Achievements from Ancient India

What is an achievement?

Any time a civilization first does something that helps them -- like building cities, inventing writing, domesticating animals, developing pottery and metalworking, knowledge, and creating complex social structures.

Multiple Choice

What is an ancient achievement?

• supermarkets

• the invention of the wheel

• Amazon

• the weather

Writing

Sanskrit is one of the world's oldest written languages. Sacred Hindu texts called the Vedas were written in Sanskrit after being taught orally for hundreds of years. Writing in Ancient India included poetry, fables, folktales, plays and Hindu law and religion

Sanskrit is one of the world's oldest languages that is still read/spoken today.

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​Sanskrit

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Multiple Choice

The writing invented in Ancient India is

• Latin
• Devanagari
• Cyrillic
• Sanskrit

The ancient sacred texts of Hinduism are called the Veda, which means “knowledge.” Hindus composed these texts over hundreds of years. For a long time they passed down the texts of the Veda by reciting them. Eventually they wrote the texts down. Hindus today still study the Veda.

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Multiple Choice

The books of Hinduism are the

• Bible

• Vedas

• Quran

• Torah

Science and Medicine

Medical practices were written in the Vedas 4,000 years ago. Ancient Indians used hundreds of herbs, plants, and flowers like the lotus to treat problems. They even performed early surgeries. Yoga helped align the mind, body and soul.

YOGA

Started in Northern India 5,000 years ago!

Yoga is still very popular today!

Multiple Choice

Yoga involves meditation. Meditation is:

• clearing your mind and focusing.

• memorizing information.

• a way to run faster.

• physical exercise and stretching.

​Advanced tools

Ancient Indians invented "metallurgy"

Metallurgy is the science of melting and combining different metals to make stronger tools.

What does it look like he is making out of metal?

Multiple Choice

Metallurgy is

• using medicines

• the art of painting
• forming rocks

• mixing metals

Art and Architecture

Architecture is designing and building structures like houses, bridges and cities.

Early Indian civilizations made planned cities with sanitation systems (plumbing!). Later on civilizations built universities, temples and palaces. They produced paintings, murals, and sculptures.

Ancient Indian Cities

The cities in Ancient India were very organized.
Cities were built on high land to protect from flooding from monsoons.
Every house had a bathroom with a bath and a toilet.
There were wells built in the ground for fresh drinking water

​ Both in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, almost every home had a flush toilet, connected to a sewage system. 

​Flushing Toilets

Multiple Choice

Ancient India was the first civilization to have:

• indoor plumbing

• television

• wheels

• fire

• farming

Math and Astronomy

Ancient India created the concept of zero, a system of measurement, weights, scales and decimals. They discovered that the Earth spun on an axis.

Math and Astronomy

Astronomers accurately observed the sky, mapped the stars, and believed that the Earth was round and revolved around the sun.