This book was created and published on StoryJumper™

©2014 StoryJumper, Inc.   All rights reserved.

Publish your own children's book: 

www.storyjumper.com

It was presentation day for this 2nd grade 

class all about the Ancient Indian Empire.  

Each student has a different topic to present 

on, "Okay class let's get started!" Said Mr. 

Ghost.

The economy of the Harappan Culture was based 

on agriculture and trade.   The polity was very 

formal and organized. And their government was 

run by priests.   Harappan religion was a lot like 

other ancient civic religions, they were based on 

nature and natural phenomena.

The Indo-Aryan economy was based off of hunting, 

gathering, and herding (mostly sheep and cattle).  

Their polity was tribal structured, they were always 

geared towards war.   Their laws were based on 

tradition that had been passed down from 

generation to generation.   The Indo-Aryan religion 

was a very important part of their culture, it's 

highly structured and organized.

The Vedic Culture economy revolved around 

agriculture and trade.   They raised a variety of 

crops so they didn't have to trade as much.   Their 

polity was a small independent city-state that was 

lead by a king.   A city-state is a permanent city 

supported the surrounding farm land.   The Vedic 

Culture's religion involved worshiping nature, like 

the sun, earth, and sky.   The rituals were 

performed in nature opposed to a temple like other 

cultures.   The Vedic Culture used the caste system, 

which Larry the spider will present to you next. 

As Ernie said, the Vedic Culture used the Caste 

System.   The Caste System is basically the four 

"groups" each member of society was put into.  

Starting at the bottom were common 

workers/peasants, above them were merchants 

and farmers, then warriors and rulers, and finally 

priests at the "top of the food chain" so to speak.    

The Hinduism religion is known in many different 

ways because of how the development of it 

changed so much over such a long period of time, 

and the unawareness of how it was invented.   This 

religion believes in reincarnation which is they 

believe that everyone on earth does not have one 

life, but when they die they are reborn as a new 

form of life.   That's one of the big things Hinduism 

is known for.

Siddhartha Gautama founded Buddhism and he 

became known as the Buddha or the enlightened 

one.   He lived a great life in a palace with a wife 

and an infant son, but he left them to explore the 

values of life and death and what he believes they 

mean.   And later in life started teaching what he 

believed.    Buddhism is very similar to Hinduism 

because Gautama was born a Hindu himself.   But 

there were differences like, Hindu's had to know 

and believe The Four Noble Truths and The 

Eightfold Path.

The Maurayan Empire was very organized and 

efficient, they were an autocracy.   An autocracy is 

very similar to a dictatorship, one single ruler with 

absolute power over everyone.   Chandragupta 

founded the Maurayan Empire and he expanded 

Ancient India a lot.   After Chandragupta the 

Buddhist emperor Ashoka took over and he 

maintained what Chandragupta built but once 

Ashoka died this great empire started to fall from 

invasions of southern princes.

The Kushan empire was located in Northwest India 

in and around the Hindukush mountains.    Kujula 

Kadphises was the first emperor for the Kushan 

empire, Greek was there first official language.  

Their currency were coins mad of copper gold and 

silver. They expanded their empire by invading 

surrounding towns and Indian villages.

You've previewed 10 of 16 pages.

To read more: