Indus River

India is from north to south, India extends about 2,000 miles. It’s a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water. Geography has protected India. The best known passage in India is the Khyber pass. The land of the northern India is fertile, so it grows many good crops. Life in India depends on water from two of the rivers known as Indus River, and the Ganges. India’s 1st civilization started in the Indus River …

…made the 1st cotton cloth. Archaeologists have discovered many clay tablets, or flat writing pad, in the Indus River Valley. On them there were pictograms. About 1500 B.C. this civilization suddenly ended. The coastline changed so trading became harder. The monsoon might have failed, or maybe disease, an earthquake, or a flood struck. It might have been that the farmers could no longer grow enough food, or maybe the armies from the central Asia invaded.