India's culture and tradition is shown through their medicine by using herbs and minerals to help relive illness.

Standing 213 feet tall, the Taj Mahal, named after the kings wife, took twenty-two years to build and was one of India's greatest engineering feats.

Monsoons play a very important role in India's lives by providing them with fertil land across the many flat plains and deserts.

Art was started in india in 2500 B.C.and continued on throughout time to be used to communicate messages.

Geography:
total landmass is 2,973,190 square kilometers.
Divided into three different geological regions: Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Himalayas and the peninsula region.
North India includes the Indo-Gangetic Plain and portions of the Himalayas.
South India includes the peninsula region.
On the basis of physiography is divided into ten regions: the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the northern mountains of the Himalayas, the Central Highlands, the Deccan, the East Coast, the West Coast, and the Great India Desert.
Central highlands are divided into north and south parts.
Main resources are iron ore, bauxite, copper, manganese, mica, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds petroleum, limestone, arable land.
Shaped like an irregular quadrilateral.
Mount Everest is part of the land masses mountains.
1/3 the size of the US.

Climate:
Western Himalayas: August-unpleasantly hot
Winter-cold and damp
December to March-extremely cold
Northern Plains: Typically warm
summer-hot and damp
July to September-damp with monsoons