I Am An Architect With The Valley Civilization

In chapter 6 of Earth's in his people's we begin to see the similarities between the first civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt in which around roughly the same time The Fairly large Indus Valley Civilization Rose during the same time period as the first civilizations. Liking other civilizations the Indus Valley Civilization had huge cities, with the two most famous ones being Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in which archaeologist show that the cities were very organized with their Construction and standardization of styles and shapes of the things they built such as houses churches statues and many other things. The Indus Valley people had like other countries developed many sophisticated Technologies and works of art and unique buildings however,

There is very little information about the religious beliefs in the Indus civilization. Artifacts that were found in trading, such as the seals and ornaments, were interpreted as “ritual” objects. However, there is little proof that they were used in worship of deities. Instead, their belief system mirrored their structure of government. Kenoyer (1991) explains that the Harappan culture was based on a socio-ritual belief system. In this system, the seals, ornaments, and other “ritual” objects that were traded between regions represented the regions of people using similar objects. Similarly, burials sites and cemeteries showed patterns of every major region. However, not all of the regions practiced burial. Therefore, these sites do not represent the belief of the society. Some regions practiced cremation or exposure. Overall, the socio-ritual belief became an important part of the Indus society in which it reflected and maintained its social hierarchy within different regions.

The river valley civilizations of Sumer, Egypt, India, and China were historical pillars of innovation. Not only were they each responsible for having forged new technological innovations, but they each created their own system of writing as well. Each of them meets the requirements of being labeled as a “civilization” because each had a form of social organization, trade and economic activity, government, division of labor, and some form of record keeping. What sets them apart from one another are the specifics within the similarities they shared. These similarities and differences within their technological innovations and writing are numerous.

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However, like the Egyptians, Indus people

There is not much known about the Indus River Valley because their writing system was so intricate and complicated it hasn’t been deciphered yet. Nevertheless, evidence suggested that the River Valley nation had a unified and organized government, no social classes, and no military what so ever. Their major cities had fortifications by walls and gates but no palaces or temples. It was like they were exclaiming “Don’t come in were protecting our riches!”, when they don’t have anything to plunder! The people of the Indus River Valley’s diet consisted of fish, as a staple, and they grew wheat, rye, peas, and perhaps rice as supplements. Thankfully the people of Harappa invented the first toilet! Who knows what would have happened if they did not! The River Valley civilization was, in fact, resistant to outside innovations, they were a recluse people, even when they did trade it was for necessities only. The priest class of the River Valley dominated the others, they were said to be intermediaries between the people and the gods and goddesses. Their artistic expression soared above all others, they excelled the most at jewelry and statue crafting. Even though the Indus River Valley did not take to outside influences to better their society, they still created a large and prosperous empire that lasted

To illustrate, the Indus civilization flourished a thousand years later than the Middle- East and North Africa. So these huge civilizations were already dominating the area, leaving the Indus Valley in the shadows. Then Indian or South Asian civilizations moved toward the plains of the Ganges River, which archeologists believed covered all that remained of the Indus (p.103). The Indus Valley began to decline around 1700 B.C.E and was not rediscovered until the twentieth century. Therefore decades passed before any recognition of the Indus Valley, causing erosion and wear on the artifacts and history of the valley. All scholars have really uncovered are the advanced cities and neighborhoods they made. This leaves a lot of room for potential explanations about the civilization and their lives. Moreover, the script written on the seals found are unrecognizable and archeologists cannot decode the language. The language written on these seals is unlike any other dialect. In addition, our mindset compared to the people of the Indus Valley is worlds apart. A plausible reason why people cannot decipher these intricate seals is our mind are overcomplicating their meanings. I think we perplex, or over simplify, their dialect. We are so in the dark about the interpretations of this ancient civilization and their seals because the Indus Valley is foreign to us. Limited archeologist

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There are many debates surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization. The reason little is known about this civilization is that they have very short texts, they used a language that is unknown to today’s archaeologists and their texts were never translated into another known language. What is known about the Indus Valley Civilization is that they built huge, advanced, highly protected cities with grid roads and large amounts of trade with other civilizations. The walls surrounding each city were heavily fortified helped to defend them for the 700 years from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. The Indus also used sophisticated town-planning which helped give them the incredibly useful and convenient roads that was straight and intersected at set points. The civilization was once very advanced and noble but

Ancient India stands as one of the oldest civilizations in human history. Though occupied since the Mesolithic era some thirty thousand years ago, the Indus River Valley was the region from which the first Indian cultures arose sometime around 5000 BCE. Archaeologists have learned much from two cities of note from that time period until around 1900-1700 BCE. Mohenjo-Daro is the better preserved of the two, owing to it’s long burial until 1922 CE. Harappa, from which the Harappan civilization of 5000-1900 BCE derives its name, was the cultural center of its day, but under British Rule workers largely dismantled the city in the 19th century for infrastructure construction, such as for railway ballast (Mark, 2012).

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The Harappan Civilization is arguably one of the most successful and cultivated human development known to this date. Known as the Chalcolithic period because of copper and stone use, this civilization started in around 2600 B.C - 1900 B.C and is the oldest civilization in the world. Although many refer to it as the “Indus Valley” Civilization, it is not technically accurate because this culture was spanning way further than the Indus, so it is more reasonable to call it Harappan. The development of this society contains many different aspects, such as geography and buildings, crafts and trade, religion and ritual impurity, etc. From what we know so far, the works of this civilization is truly remarkable.

Indus valley civilization was the most widespread amongst the other Bronze Age civilization, which flourished in the basins of Indus River. It is an independent cultural complex contemporary to other great Bronze Age urban civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Ancient Greece. Indus valley civilization are noted for their urban planning with elaborated drainage and water supply systems, vast water therapeutic establishment greatly know as “The Great Bath”, rich cultural heritage and countless archeological structures and artifacts; exceptional both in conservation and in its symbolic richness and aesthetical power. It has one of the most peculiar and elaborated iconographies and early form of hypertext. Furthermore, the ideology of Hinduism and

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