Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1135 short lesson, about 20 seconds
South Asia: Monsoon, Indus, Density
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The idea
The Himalaya rose from India's collision with Eurasia. The Indus Valley civilization, from about thirty-three hundred BCE, depended on the monsoon and declined by eighteen hundred BCE. The region is a religious hearth: Vedism to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism.
In practice
Indo-European north, Sino-Tibetan Himalaya, Dravidian south.
Where people slip
India over one point three billion, the most populous region.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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