Indus River Valley

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A. Beginning High in the Mountains1. India is a subcontinent of Asia

2. The Himalayas separate India from the rest of Asia

3. The Indus R. begins as a stream in these mountains

4. In the spring it filled with melting snow5. It flows through China, Pakistan, and India6. During the spring it floods leaving _____

behind. Twice as much as the Nile

7. Like Egypt & Mesopotamia the people counted on the silt for farming

B. Indus Valley Agriculture1. Began farming around

6,000 B.C. 1000 years before Egypt

2. Used the warm climate and irrigation to plant twice a year = much more surplus

3. Used levees like Mesopotamia to protect crops

4. Had to work with the environment

a. Floods could, and sometimes did, destroy the levees

b. Animals - tigers eat farmers - deer eat crops