Early Civilizations in India

India is a land of diversity. Today, about ____ languages and more than _______dialects—varieties of language—are spoken in India.

In the far north are the highest mountains in the world. They are the

• Appalachian

• Smokey

• Himalayas

Directly south of the Himalaya is the rich valley of the ________ , one of the chief regions of Indian culture.

• Ganges River

• Nile River

• Sandy River

• Indus River

To the west is the ________ valley, a relatively dry plateau that forms the backbone of the modern state of Pakistan.

• Ganges River

• Sandy River

• Nile River

• Indus River

The wettest place on earth is in the mountains of ______ ______.

Around ______ b.c. a group of Indo-European-speaking nomadic peoples began to move out of the steppes of central Asia.

• 2000

• 200

• 20

• 2

Indo-Europeans all spoke similar languages. Some migrated west to ______.

• Ireland

• Africa

• Europe

• Iceland

One group, known as the _____, moved south across the Hindu Kush mountain range into the plains of northern India.

The Aryans lived in tribal groups and had a strong warrior tradition. True or False?

• True

• False

In the process of settling in India, the Aryans gave up their nomadic lifestyle for farming. What did NOT help influence this?

• introduction of iron

• easier access to copper

• the invention of the plow

• the use of irrigation