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Ch. 13.2 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India 

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Ch. 13.2 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India 

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~ Each summer in the Brahmaputra River, heavy monsoon rains add water to a certain type of the river, which causes the river to overflow. Then, the river leaves rich minerals that it has carried down from the  Himalayas Mountains. Eventually, this river would join the Ganges river and land is very fertile and really good to grow crops, which means most Indians would probably settle in that are for water and vegetation.

(Down below: The Ganges river today) (Credits to google and photographer ((Unknown)) ....)

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Ch. 13.3 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.3 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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~ The Deccan Plateau is somewhat a triangular shaped area of land that is between two mountains ranges in the south of India. Plateaus are flat areas of land that is raise/elevated above the land that's around it. However, The Deccan Plateau has different kinds land, 600 million years ago, large granite rocks were formed by volcanoes to cover the land. The Deccan Plateau is also dry but there are a few rivers, and there are black, yellow, and red soil in the Deccan Plateau. I believe that farmers would settle their because they would grow cotton and the water, but now, I am not sure if they actually can grow crops to eat and all...

(Below is a picture of the map of Deccan Plateau)

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Ch. 13.4 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.4 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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~ Mountain chains: Easter and Western Ghats; can form the letter "V" when seen from above and the Deccan Plateau stretches between the mountain chains. The Western Ghats have steep slopes, narrow valleys, thick hardwood forests, and extremely heavy rains, the wet/rainy climate can let tropical plants grow. The Eastern Ghats have several rivers that flow through the green mountains which are filled with hardwood trees, the rivers rarely flood which makes it more of a dry place, and the Eastern Ghats aren't as tall as the Western Ghats.

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Ch. 13.5 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.5 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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~ Ganges River starts from the Himalaya mountains and traces its way south through mountains, valleys, ice, and rock. It stretches almost through all of Southern India. The Ganges River can carry sediments, such as bits of sands from the Himalaya mountains to the Northern Plains. As a result of the river passing through and leaving the rich sediments behind, the Northern Plain can contain some of the most fertile soil in the world! However, during the rain seasons, rivers can overflow and ruin all the crops that were planted.

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Ch. 13.6 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.6 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Himalaya mountains are the highest ranges in the world, to be specific it is Mount Everest, which is the highest mountain in the world, and is part of the Himalaya mountains. It reaches 5 and a half miles upwards and towards the sky!! Running a mile already makes me exhausted.. Anyways, underneath the Himalaya mountains it is always moving, which causes Mt. Everest to slightly rise every year, it can also make earthquakes and landslides common in that area.

(Below is a picture of Mt. Everest and the Himalaya mountains)

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Ch. 13.7 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.7 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Hindu Kush mountains can form a fierce barrier between India and present-day Afghanistan. The mountains range aren't as tall as the Himalayas, though, it is still the highest mountain ranges in the world. Some of its peaks are almost as high as 5 miles, snow and ice permanently cover the steep slopes and peaks. The Khyber Pass is 28 mile long gap between the mountains, it connects central Asia to India Subcontinent. For thousands of years, traders and invaders would pass to enter the Indus River Valley, but when invaders pass, for some reason many of them died in the mountains.

(Below is a picture of the Hindu Kush mountains)

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Ch. 13.8 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.8 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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The Indus River begins from the Himalayas, it gets water from melting snow of Hindu Kush's mountains and other mountain ranges as well. The melting snow from the mountain ranges keeps the lever of the water high, the river would flow from the country, which is now called Pakistan, and would empty through the Arabian sea. Fishers probably goes to the Indus River, because a wide variety of fish live in the river, so fishes and shrimps are fished by fishermen to sell and/or eat. The Indus River also contains some of the best farmland fertile in the world, just like the Ganges River, the Indus River carries sediment form mountains ranges and up to the plains, the sediment provides rich soil surroundings and farmland fertile. The Indus River is an important source of water for the farmland, which helps the Indians grow crops. However, it is often to be compared to the Egypt's Nile River!

(Down below is a picture of the Indus River)

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Ch. 13.9 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.9 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Thar Desert is massive desert in the North of India, the desert is mostly sand and rock. Huge sand dunes stretch for hundreds of miles, and so the landscapes are filled with rocks. There isn't really much of plant life, just really little plant life that includes grass and low, hardy shrubs. The heat is just way hotter than the hottest times we've had in California, it would reach up to 120 Degrees Fahrenheit. Water is really precious, as precious as the richest diamonds, in the desert, but there's no evidence of dried riverbed near the desert's border, there are no rivers now. It is common to get dust storms of the dry conditions, and it is really rare to rain. The desert is a home for lots of animals and birds, there are at least 45 kinds of lizards and snakes, Gazelles run and trot across the sand, and birds flying around, all living in the desert.

(Down below is a picture of the Thar Desert)

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Ch. 13.10 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Ch. 13.10 of History Alive! (The Ancient World) Geography of India

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Like ancient people, Indians settled near rivers, the Indus and Sarasvati River in 6500 . The Sarasvati is believed to be dried out so afterwards, Indians move to settle near the Ganges River in 5000 B.C.E