RLG205H5 Lecture Notes - Dravidian Languages, Indus River, Harappa
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Egypt, mesopotamia, indus valley 3 oldest civilizations. Indus river in pakistan lots of material objects, but no texts ancient cities harappa and mohanjo-daro. Indus valley seals: what do they mean? theory of the seals is based on how language works languages are related to each other theory is that old script in the seals is modern dravidian. What are the major theories? invasion (old theory) internal collapse (famine, economic, natural disaster) theory of invasion/conquest. Indus valley civilization was replaced by the vedic civilization natural idea is that there must have been a conquest of the indus people by the. Vedic people but when archaeologists looked at the ancient world, there is no evidence to show for any violence. Vedic are called aryans came into asia after thus there is a new hypothesis theory of internal collapse related to changes in environmental conditions mainly flooding economic issues over-grazing and deforestation.
