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Namstye. Mrs. Salisbury and students. Today, I’m here to talk about the most amazing ancient civilization, Ancient India. I’m going to talk about 4 main points, the environment, clothing, religion and contributions to modern day. I hope all of you are interested in my ancient civilization.
So get ready, get set and strap yourself in for the most amazing ride of your life. It’s called the discovery ride of ancient India.
Our first stop on our ride is to the environment. In ancient India there is something call a monsoon. The monsoon is when clouds gather and rain would cause the ground to get muggy. People were feeling something was about to happen. Finally it would start to rain. This would happen around May. The monsoon happens once a year. It would rain for about a month every day all day. This would be good for trees and flowers and other vegetation. If the monsoon did not come the animals and people would go hungry. The environment was very important to ancient India.
Our next stop is clothing. People in ancient India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where cotton was grown possibly as early as 2500 B.C. Early In ancient Indian history woman started wearing something called a Sari. A Sari is a long piece of cloth. They wore it in many different ways. To dress up, women wore it like a skirt with a top thrown over her shoulder or worn as a veil. Women who worked pulled the sari up between their legs as pants. Women who fought in the military tucked in the top part of the sari in the back to free up their arms for fighting. Saris were mostly 5 to 6 yards long. Young women wore brightly coloured saris while widows wore white ones. There was also something called a dhoti. Only men wore this. It was white. It was shorter than a sari. Like working women, they pulled it up between their legs to make pants. Unlike a sari it did not have the part that covers the chest or shoulders. Men also wore a long piece of cloth around their head as turbans. In around 1000 A.D. Persian fashions in clothing entered ancient India. But it did not replace the sari or the dhoti. They wore the churdar with long tunics over them down to their knees. Women usually wore it with a long scarf or a veil over it. Women who could afford it wore a lot of silver and gold jewelry, especially earrings and nose rings. Sometimes they put a spot of red on their forehead called a bindi as a decoration. Clothing was also very important to Ancient India.
Moving along the ride to Religion. There were three main religions in ancient India. Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Buddhism began in India and spread to west India. Have you ever heard of Buddha? Well he’s related to Buddhism. Islam comes into Ancient India from West Asia. The origin of Hinduism is less clear. But it is thought to have been with the arrival of Indians from west Asia. The Hindus believed in something called reincarnation. Reincarnation is when you die you believed you will live on in another life. The Buddhist people believed that you could get out of the cycle of reincarnation by being good to people and by learning not to care about things of the body, and through meditation. Islam is the acceptance of religion given to the last Prophet Muhammad from God. The religions of ancient India are still being practiced in modern day India.
We have now been to 3 of our 4 stops on our amazing ride they all are really cool so that means we’re on to our 4th main stop …contribution to modern day. Who loves Chess? I know I do! Well the ancient Indians invented the strategic game of chess. They also invented Algebra! Algebra is the backbone of all maths. It helps us solve math equations easier and quicker. The contributions to modern day that they developed were really helpful and fun. You have now heard 4 out 4 main points all very interesting! You heard about the environment, clothing, Religion and Contributions to modern day. The ride of Ancient India is coming to end and it was amazing and it was great! Please come again.
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