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The Ganges and Indus rivers each helped Ancient India much more than hurt it. The Ganges river ran very far and very wide. It provided fertile land, fish, water, and a place to keep clean. The Indus river did the same. The two rivers enabled Ancient India to thrive the way it did.

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Besides from giving us our numbers, they also gave us  the powers of ten from 100 to a trillion! The Ancient Indians also provided evidence for addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, squares, cubes and roots. Aside from this, they also began enumerating numbers up to 10⁵³

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These classes helped India to thrive, because everyone had their job, and their position. It was orderly and worked in sync like a body, or a team should. Some parts are lower, but equally or more important.

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These religions still affect most of the world today. Today, there are 1.15 billion Hinduists, and 376 millions Buddhists. Together, these two religions make up about 3% of the population.

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The Ajanta Caves were famous paintings that can be traced back to the Christian Era. They were the ´birthplace of Indian art.´ These paintings were used as decoration for temples in caves.

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This is a picture of the Ajanta Caves. They still affect the world today. These caves gave us the ideas for temples, and especially painting. Ajanta Caves set off art today.

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Peasants, artisans, and those who did menial labor were part of the sudra caste. They wore a loincloth and a scarf wrapped around their head. The people in this caste were likely in this caste because of their skin. Darker skinned people were usually in the lower castes.

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They were merchants, business men. These people wore loincloths, and scarves, often thrown over their shoulder. Most work benefitted higher class

They believed if they performed their duties faithfully they would be reborn into a higher class

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All of these men were either kings or warriors. They were the second highest in the system, just under the priests. They wore sultan caps, robes, cloaks, and lots of jewelry. These people were defined as the protectors of people and cows.

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The untouchables were part of the lowest bit of the caste system. They weren't even considered part of the caste system. They did the worst work and never got any money and barely food. They did jobs like cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping the street. They could only marry in their caste. To get in this caste you were either born into it or you had committed a really bad crime.

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Brahmans were the highest class, wearing a cap and robes. They married in their caste, and Became priests by birth or if they were proven to be worthy, which was rare. Lead the congress party and all of them were vegetarians.

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All the divisions were intertwined. The priests, highest class, helped all the other classes to stay in order and in their place. However, they hurt the others while being and acting cruel at times. The kings and warriors helped by protecting and ruling, but hurt by doing the same thing the priests did. However, the merchants didn't hurt any class. They helped the higher classes by providing food and goods, but they did help the untouchables to have jobs. The sudra were pretty much the same with helping/hurting.

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Writing and literature had an impact on ancient India because without it their society would of been less advanced. They had writing to keep organized, and used for religion, and many other things.

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Ancient India had 3 main writing systems. Their first script was first developed around 2600 BC. This was called the Indus script. People have not undeciphered any of this language because it is so old.
The two other scripts were called Brahmi and Kharosthi. These scripts were used to write many things like royal inscriptions and special documents.

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Writing was undertaken in the mid-third millennium BC in the Harappan culture. They produced the Rig Veda, which is the earliest sort of Aryan-Indo writing, and Kalidasa Gupta and is translated into the important languages of the world.

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Below is a map of Ancient India
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The Thar Desert affected the Indian civilization by enclosing that bit of India and protecting it from invading armies.

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The Himalayan mountains helped the Indians because the mountains created a barrier that separated and protected India.