HIS 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indus Valley Civilisation, Rigveda, Vedic Period
15 Feb 2018
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Two story buildings, boulevards following a grid, sewage systems. Connectivities and similarities, indicating they were related (artifacts, seals, town. Planned cities of mohenjo daro and harrapa planning) Indus valley seals: hieroglyphs have never been discovered. No one knows why the civilization died out. By 1900 bce, urban culture was in fast decline. Theories of floods, climate change, foreign attacks (very little evidence of violence) No evidence of earthquakes that could have destroyed the civilizations. Ppl living in the remains of the abandoned city. Similar to the indus valley civilization, though the wheel is pulled by oxen. Came across middle east and settled in south asia, bringing the sanskrit language with them. The horse is central to the vedic people. First thought that they conquered the indus valley civilization, but the first evidence of the vedic people are of 500 years later.
