Clase 1 India

8/7/2019 Clase 1 India

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Indias shape today.

India as the country it is today emerged in1947.

Its birth implied a fracture and an

emergence: Indian Union & Pakistan. Before that it was known as British India

(Due to the historical error known bay all of

us).

Located in South Asia (which includes Ceilan

and other minor and old islands).


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Origin of its name.

India is not the original name of the country. In its ancient cosmology, it was named

Jambuvipa: the continent of the apples and

the roses.

The name India derives from its river: The

Indo.

Indo in the native language is Sindhu.

The Persians substituted the S for an H that

was later omited by the Ionian Greeks.


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Geographical Description

It is considered a subcontinent of Asia just asEurope is (Friederich Wilhelm).

Bath by the Indian Ocean.

Its western coasts are the Konkan and Malabar.North-west youll find the Kathiawar Peninsula

(Saurastra). Known as the Corner of Storms. The eastern part is known as Coromandel coast.

North-east, the Bengala Gulf is to be found.

South, lies the island of Sri Lanka (formerlyCeilan).

North are the Himalaya Mountains (which reducesthe entrance to India to Khaibar and Bolanpasses).


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Geo-demographic facts

The vital artery of India was the Indo, it had in itsterritory the function that the Tigris and Euphrateshad in Mesopotamia and the Nile in Egypt.Nowadays, the Indo belongs to Pakistan.

It and its affluent streams were that which allowed

trade between the high valleys of Himalaya andthe cities along the river, just as they united themain cities of the Culture of Indo (Mohenjo, Daroand Harapa) with the Persian Gulf.

It helped the cultural transmision.

Indo fertilized the land every monsoon butrepresented a constant threat for it overfloweddue to the thawing of the Himalaya.


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Geo-demographic facts

Nowadays, the Indo belongs to Pakistan.

The main indian river is the Ganges.

There are five rivers that join and form the

Panjnad all along the land of the Panjab.

Huge zones of the territory were devasteted

for the ancient cultures were wooden based

and used animal excrement as combustion

material. They are now the Thar desert.


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Sri Lanka

Formerly known as Ceylan *1972* In Pali it was known as Sihaladipa and was

pronounced by the foreigners as Silon.

The Greeks call it Taprabone, because in

Sanskrit was known as Tamraparn. It is a breachof Islands known as Adams

Breach.

It is a rocky mountain Island with high picksthat ascend up to 2.500 mts. Above theleverage.

Its main river is the Mahaveli.


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