India

India Is a beautiful place, even though most parts of India are covered mostly with poverty, this country has its own beauty. This country has many states. It has 28 states and 7 union territories. Union Territories are almost the same as a state. It is a very big country. India has a very big population as well; the population is 1,132,446,000 which is second in the world. Capital city of India is New Delhi which is a very dirty part of India. The largest city in India is Mumbai also know has Bombay.
India also has the largest film industry in the worlds know has Bollywood. This is located in Bombay. This film industry is said to be 3 times bigger than Hollywood. Actors and Actresses don’t make much compare to celebrities here. In North America celebs can make up to 20 million in a movie. Sometimes in India prices are so cheap it takes only 20 million to make a movie. 
The climate of India is mostly very hot. Most of India does not have winter. Seasons change accordingly to monsoons which are winds that bring moist or dry air. Monsoons are very normal to India. They arrive about the same time every year. Monsoon’s result from large differences in temperatures along land, sea and air. This is because the land heats up faster than water. 
In the summer, warm moist air blows from the Indian Ocean towards Asia, bringing in very heavy rains. In the winter cool winds flow from Central parts of Asia toward the ocean. Monsoons in the winter are not cold they are very dry. 

India’s history is very big. The earliest cities on the subcontinent were built in the Indus River valley, and were part of the Indus civilization which was about 2500 B.C.E to 1500 B.C.E. These cities were built from brick and were home to a large population of people.
This was a good place to settle since it had fertile soil, and it had water for irrigation and trade. The people on the Indus river valley got to build streets, private homes, public baths, and shops. They also learned how to make cotton which made them one of the first cotton textile company. 
Ashoka (grandson of Chandragupta) was the greatest of the Maurya rulers. He was also India’s most interesting leader. Under Ashoka, nearly all of India was brought together as one large empire. In one military campaign, against the kingdom of Kalinga, thousands of people were killed or wounded. Ashoka then converted in to a Buddhist. Several hundred years before Ashoka’s birth, Siddhartha came to believe that killing was deeply wrong. So Ashoka stopped and worked on how to make life better for his empire and India. 
Then came India’s Golden Age, after centuries, the Gupta Empire was founded by another ruler named Chandragupta. He dreamed of recreating the glory and stability of the Maurya Empire. After series of manoeuvres Chandragupta got himself crowned Maharaja (King of Kings) in the ancient capital of Pataliputra. During all this great new things were made like Indian art, Science, Music, and literature. This was called the India’s Golden Age.

India’s economy in Gupta times was based only on agriculture. Famers lived in villages, and even now they do. Villages have always been very important in India. Villages are the home of extended families, and are really small societies. Each society has its own worship place, and ways of doing things. 
Farmers were taxed for part of their income, and the money went to the royal treasury. Most farmers paid the value of 1/5 of their cattle and 1/6 of their produce to the tax collectors. They also had to pay special water taxes if their lands were irrigated. Crafts-persons were also taxed. But most of the wealth of Indian states came from the taxes paid by landlords, and people that worked on that land. Indian temples and priests were given money by offerings and fee’s, mostly from farmers, and produce of the lands owned by individual people.
Crafts-persons were well organized in the Gupta’s age. Many of them belonged to specialized guilds, which created cloth, pottery, and metal ware. There were also guilds that made oil from palms and other plants. Each of the guild members got money by putting in their money and more experienced guild members got the largest amount of money paid to them. 
The Gupta’s were also traders and explorers. They carried on regular trade with China and even, indirectly with the Romans. Indian ships under the Gupta have sailed as far as China and Arabia. 
 All these topics make just make up a part of India’s great History. The history of India has very roots. I thought all these topics were interesting to me , hope you liked the topics I chose.