Remains of a variety of children's toys have been found. The toys were made of clay. They include carts, bird-shaped whistles, rattles and figures of various animals.

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No, the Indus River Valley Civilization extended from Afghanistan to Bangladesh. South Asia is considered a subcontinent, but the IVC was bigger than South Asia and did not extend into South India.

There was lots of fertile land and it was very easy to plant crops. There was also lot's of water for animals and to irrigate crops. They used the natural resources and built houses and things the would need in their daily life.

The Indians practiced inoculation or injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defences to a disease. By fighting off this small dose, the body learns to protect itself. For people who were injured, Indian doctors could perform surgery. Indian interest in astronomy, the study of stars and planets, dated back to early times as well.

The Aryan invasion of India never occurred. It was a theory developed by Max Mueller to explain similarities between European and Indian languages and people. DNA research later showed that Aryan people, Dravidian people, and most Europeans are all descended from a small group of women who lived in South India around 50,000 years ago.

the leaders in ancient India were mainly the kings (rajahs). They had their own palaces where everyone would get togather to make decisions on laws. After they king dies his oldest son becomes the next king. If he has two sons then the second son would become the king when the first sons dies.

The Arthashastra, dating from the 400 BCE, and the Manusmriti, from 100 CE, were influential laws in Indian.

1. Arthashastra deals in detail with the disciplines required for a wise and virtuous king.

2. Manusmriti contains laws, rules and codes of conduct to be applied by individuals, communities and nations.

The classes, or castes, of ancient India were the brahmins, kshatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. The brahmins were the priest class, the kshatriyas the ruler and warrior class, the vaisyas the merchants, artisans, farmers, etc., and the sudras the peasants and laborers. There were also the "untouchables." They were the people who did not belong to any of the formal castes, and were thus looked down upon. They were typically given the occupations that members of the other castes found dishonorable or unclean.

Because one of the first cities was called Harappa.

The first people seem to have reached India from Africa around 40,000 BC. At first they were hunters and gatherers, like other people around the world at this time. But by around 4000 BC, these people had begun farming and by 2500 BC settled in the Indus river valley, where they began to live in cities and use irrigation to water their fields. This is a little later than in West Asia, probably because India was not as crowded as West Asia at this time. A lot of people think that the reason they began to farm, and then build cities was that a gradual warming trend was making it harder to get water, and harder to find wild plants to eat, every year. So every year more and more people moved into the Indus river valley, where there was still plenty of water. When it got really crowded there, people began to build cities.

There were two main cities that we know of, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) away. Both are in modern Pakistan. The people of these cities lived in stone houses two and three stories high, and had sewage systems. They used bronze tools. They may have learned to make bronze from the Sumerians.

The Harappa people used an early form of writing based on hieroglyphs, like the Egyptians. But we can't read it, because there isn't very much left of it.

By around 2000 BC, though, the Harappan civilization had collapsed. We don't know what caused this collapse. Most people think the most likely reason is that the warming trend continued until there wasn't enough water even in the Indus river valley to support these cities and the farmers who fed them. Some people probably starved to death, while others moved up into the hills, where it was cooler and some rain fell.

But by 1500 BC, the Indus river valley saw an invasion of Indo-Europeans, like similar invasions in Greece and Italy a little earlier.

Religion plays a major role in the Indian way of life. Rituals, worship, and other religious activities are very prominent in an individual's daily life; it is also a principal organizer of social life. The degree of religiosity varies among individuals

Yes of course, a country could not exist without merchants. The Indians were in fact so expert at this that they ran stores and business all over the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands, including East Africa.

It lasted for 2,000 years and was peaceful. They had South Asia's earliest writing system, planned cities, Metallurgy, agriculture and trade with Egypt and Sumer.

The Harappans were the earliest people to grow COTTON. They spun the cotton and wove it into cloth. Other plants that the Harappans cultivated were barley, wheat, peas, melons, and dates.

Harappa in historical terms is more significant than other ancient cities. Not only was it discovered first which pushed back the history of the subcontinent at least five thousand years back, forcing a review of human evolution, but also provided a unique insight into the process that created a multilayered and complex society that is subcontinent. It was Harappa and its surrounding areas that bore the brunt of early waves of Aryans, thus transforming all the aspects of life in our part of the world for all time to come.

The strict caste system the Brahmin's were in the upper most part of their social class and the untouchables or the outcasts were in the lower most part of their social class. The untouchables were treated like dirt and never spoken to by anyone outside of their caste.

Ancient Harappan Civilization Collapsed Because of Changes in the Climate. A new study has provided evidence that climate change was a leading cause of the great Indus or Harappan civilization collapsing 4000 years ago.May 30, 2012

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The Harappan language was an Indus valley language.

2. They spoke a form of Sanskrit, according to a recent decipherment.

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The Harappans and Sumerians are distinctly different politically. While the Sumerians developed the world's first monarchy, the Harappans may have developed the first democracy. Very little evidence has been found of a king in the Indus Valley, only one white priest-king idol and a silver crown; not enough to establish that the "royalty" were the rulers. Instead the empire was divided into regions with half a dozen cities functioning as capitals and was governed by a group of people. Archeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyed has speculated that the Harappan rulers were merchants, ritual specialists and individuals controlling important resources, instead of just one social group controlling the rest. From the construction of the cities however it does appear there were some social classes, as the citadel is usually 20 feet higher than the middle and lower town. The Sumerians, on the other hand, developed into city-states ruled by a priest-king. The king led the military, administered trade, judged disputes and performed certain important religious ceremonies. The king also had a bureaucracy, which consisted mostly of priests, who assisted him in governing. To justify the authority of the priest-kings the Sumerians declared that the king was divinely selected, but later this changed and eventually they asserted that the king himself was divine and worthy of worship. So while the Sumerians worshiped their king the Harappans chose not to glorify any particular person and were instead ruled by ordinary people.

The economies of the Harappan and Sumerian civilizations were very similar. Both civilizations relied heavily on trade; in fact they appear to have traded extensively with one another. In records found in Mesopotamia there is mentioned a civilization they traded with in the area of the Indus valley and many Indus seals, for which they are well known, have been found in Mesopotamia. The Sumerians exported mostly textiles and crops, while the Harappans traded in lumber, copper, gold and ivory, which were bought by the Sumerian royalty. Both civilizations made great advances in transportation in order to carry their merchandise with greater ease. The Sumerians appear to have developed the wheel and possibly the sailboat and the Harappans developed ox-carts and small flat-bottomed boats all of which were used commercially. Perhaps it is because of the extensive trade between the two civilizations that they developed similarly in many areas.

In terms of religion, we know little about the Sumerian religion and even less about the Harappan religion. We do know that both civilizations were polytheistic. The Sumerians believed in many gods that were humanlike with human emotions. They believed that the sun, moon and stars were gods and everything that happened was controlled by one of the gods. According to the Sumerian religion, humans were created to serve the gods, and the gods controlled their destinies. Because they believed the gods controlled them, they sought ways to discover what the gods held in store for them. By doing this they invented astrology that eventually led to the invention of the lunar calendar. They also studied the inner organs of sacrificed animals to predict the future. To worship their gods the Sumerians built the ziggurats, large temples, which are architectural wonders. One such temple is found in the ancient city of Ur where the moon god, Nanna, was said to have lived in a little house at the top of the ziggurat. The lesser gods, who did not have enormous temples built for them, were idols and statues, which were worshiped in homes. Since the Indus script has not been deciphered and apart from the bathhouse in Mohenjo-doro there are no religious structures there is very little evidence for the beliefs and practices of the Harappans. What we know is from figurines and seals, many of which depict a horned goddess with the sacred pipal tree. This probably indicates the worship of a mother goddess who presided over fertility, birth and possibly the dead. The great bath at Mohenjo-doro was probably dedicated to this goddess and was used for purification rights and possibly ceremonial bathing before ritual cohabitation with prostitutes in the small antechamber. Because of the lack of religious structures in the Indus Valley it is very hard to discover as much about their religion as has been discovered about the Sumerian religion.

The Harappan and Sumerian social structures consisted of similar social ladders, yet differed greatly in their treatment of women. Like the Sumerians, the Harappan civilization had a social hierarchy. In Mesopotamia the highest class consisted of nobles, priests and important officers, as did the highest classes in the Indus Valley, although the priests and scholars were considered slightly higher than the noblemen. The middle class was the same in both civilizations and contained the merchants, farmers, landowners and craftsmen. The last class however is different. The Sumerians had slaves that made up the last class, however slavery in Mesopotamia was not the same as that in the rest of the world. (Instead of being differentiated by race, it was considered a misfortune and a slave could free himself through three years of service.) In the Indus Valley however the lowest class contained the servants, workers and wage earners who performed the tasks no one else wished to do. Where the two civilizations differed socially was their treatment of women. In the Indus Valley the men were the head of the house and could do whatever they wished with their wife and children. Women could do nothing if their husband did not permit it. In Mesopotamia however women were free to buy, sell, attend legal matters for absent men, own property, borrow, lend and engage in business. High status women could even learn to read and write and were given considerable administrative authority. Women were not considered equal with men in Mesopotamia, but they were respected and given considerably more power. Indeed while both civilizations had similar social hierarchies, the Sumerians treated their women with much more respect than the Harappans did.

The Sumerians and Harappans both advanced greatly in the areas of science, math and writing, but in different ways. At first both civilizations used pictographs to depict their spoken words, but the Sumerians advanced even further by developing cuneiform, (wedge-shaped) writing. They replaced pictures with symbols and added symbols for spoken sounds, developing phonetic letters. In the scientific and mathematical realm while the Sumerians were concerned with studying the stars and developed the twelve-month lunar calendar and the zodiac to measure time, the Harappans advanced in the accurate measurements of length and mass. The Harappans developed he first standardized system of weights and measures. Their measurements were extremely precise, the smallest division being equivalent to 1.704 millimeters. They carefully planned their cities and the building of their houses to make them symmetrical. They also developed a sewage and drainage system more advanced than many of those in the Middle East today. In the technological realm both civilization once again made great advances. The Sumerians developed the water clock, the wheel and the plow, while the Harappans invented a way to produce copper, bronze tin and lead. It is almost impossible to decide which civilization advanced more intellectually because they both advanced so much in different areas.

Artistically it is easy to determine that the Harappans were more advanced. While most Sumerian art was strictly religious in nature, the Harappans appear to have loved art simply because it was art. The Sumerians' preferred mediums were sculpting and painting. They also inlayed and enriched wood with scenes made of shells and semiprecious stones and did relief carvings in stone, but almost always these pieces of art were for their gods. In contrast the Harappans celebrated all art, but especially the arts of dancing, painting, plastic arts, pottery, modeling, weaving and metal working. They were very skilled in all these areas. Their pottery is of very high quality with surprisingly beautiful designs. The anatomical details found in their modeling are far beyond their time. Their carved seals used in trading are now considered miniature masterpieces in art. They were responsible for a new style of painting animals in their natural environments. It is generally accepted that the Harappan art is much more advanced than any other of its time, including the Sumerians.

The Harrapans and Sumerians both developed during about the same time period in river valleys. They traded with one another and had similar economies. They advanced along parallel lines in mathematics, science and technology although in different areas. They were both polytheistic and were both hierarchical societies. Yet they were very different politically, artistically, and in their treatment of women.

The 2 Major religions of Ancient India is Buddhism and Hindus.