Ancient Civilizations India Map Worksheet

Part I. Map Directions: Please write in the name of the following geographical features in the correct location on the map below.

Bodies of

Water Rivers Mountains Deserts Plateaus

Arabian Sea Brahmaputra River Himalayas Great Indian Desert Deccan Plateau Bay of Bengal Ganges River Hindu Kush Indian Ocean Indus River Eastern Ghats

Vindhya

Western Ghats

Name:

Date: Class:

Part II. Map Interpretation and Analysis Directions: Please use the map above to answer the questions below.

1. What is the main idea of this map, in other words what does this map show?

2. When and where did farming begin in India?

3. What were the names of the world’s first planned cities?

4. How were the cities along the Indus River connected to the other cities in western India?

5. What could the people of the Indus Valley have done to prevent the flooding that eventually forced them to abandon their cities?