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__A__ __n__ __c__ __i__ __e__ __n__ __t__ __I__ __n__ __d__ __i__ __a__ Let’s learn about Ancient India.Our civilization is told to be one out of millions of other building blocks of civilizations. What do I mean by that? I mean that our civilization had something to do with other civilizations beginnings. Want to know more and be able to answer the question yourself? Well lets dig into some reading and find out what it means! My civilization is the best because India is a land of great political leaders who ruled the country effectively. Only men from the highest caste could be rulers. They would not let any women be rulers. They made their culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. For example the Urban Culture was based on commerce and sustained. During the Mauryan period there was both civil and military officials. The most common form of government in ancient India was Monarchy. Monarchy is when someone has supreme power over a civilization. They had different levels of kings  __Raja__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(a king), <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Maharaja__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(a great king), <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Samrat__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(an emperor) They were appointed based on their amount of power and money. They also had <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Oligarchy__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in India. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Oligarchy__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has also been found in some states where power is vested in a council of nobles. Oligarchy is a type of government where there are very few people running it, and also very few followers. It can be compared to a cult in some ways. Most cities in India still follow the same rules and religion as they did in ancient India. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India is the best country because of its geographical features and because it has lots of famous landmarks. One of the unique geographical landmarks are the Himalayas, they divide India and China apart from each other and the Himalayas are a sight to see. A very interesting land mark in India is the Taj Mahal it was built between 1632 and 1653. It served as a tomb for a former king and his wife. A most famous geographical landmark in India is the tallest mountain. The mountain is called <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Kanchenjunga__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> at 28,208 feet tall! Some challenges for India were the droughts and the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> __monsoon__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and the weather. This really affected there lives and agriculture. India also has a very rough terrain so it’s hard to maneuver around. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My civilization is the best because In the money there is a seal that represents the city of Mohejo Daro. They were pressed coins. The main crops are rice, cotton, jute, wheat, barley,and rubber. Most people in ancient India as in other parts of Asia and Europe at this time were farmers in India farmers many grew rice and wheat for cloth. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India, more than half the workers worked in agriculture. People thought coins with an octopus on it were lucky. They exported gems, jewelery, text-tiles, leather, and other goods. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our civilization is the best because it has a very interesting social class system. India’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__social class__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> system involves detailed levels of what people in that certain class are and aren’t supposed to do. What is a caste system? A <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__social caste system__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a system that places people in certain groups based on their jobs, their skills, and sometimes their money or blood lines. The four main classes of the systems are called the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Varnas__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Once you are in a group, it is very hard to intermarry, and there are no ways to ‘switch’ groups. Even though caste and community are facts of Indian life, foreigners are expected to behave no differently to any of the groups. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The different levels of the social class are the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Brahmin__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Kshatrya__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Vaishya__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Shudras__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Chandalas__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. They are all said to come from parts of the body of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Brahmins__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.The first language of India was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Harappan__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, but after the Aryans invaded, the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Harappan__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">language was forgotten.The next language the Indians came up with (over 1,000 years later) was called <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Sasnskrit__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It is believed that they got the idea of an alphabetical writing system from the Persians. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All these reasons are what makes our civilization the best compared to others. Ancient India’s civilization was one of the cool civilizations that had some inventions that no other civilization had ever thought of before. Our civilization is the best and everyone knows it because all other civilizations lead to us. Examples - Indus Valley led to us, it is believed that Ancient India had something to do with the leading to the Indus Valley. These are some very detailed answers to what makes our civilization the best.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Ancient India Writers:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kyle - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Red <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hailey - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dark blue <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ben - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">green <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emaleigh - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pink <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sedona - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">orange <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lauryn - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">light purple <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grace - ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">light blue <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)