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 * Language: **
 * Made up of 400 symbols
 * Represented objects and sounds
 * Was impossible to decifer
 * Animals were found on stamps
 * They were animals that lived in the area
 * Found on stones and seals

**Trade:**
 * Traded from 2600 B.C. - 1800 B.C.
 * Traded alot with Afganistan and othe rplaces using the Indus River
 * They got gold and silver from North Afganistan
 * They got semi - precious stones from Persia
 * Few people knew how to grow cotton
 * Cotton cloth was much desired


 * Culture: **
 * Artifacts made of wood
 * Child toys and clay
 * Domesticated sheep and goats
 * Animals were important
 * Few warefar = limited conflict
 * Farming began in 3200 B.C.
 * Earthquakes caused floods and altered river course


 * Technology: **
 * Built drainage / sewage systems
 * Plumbing system
 * Oven baked and cut bricks to build with
 * Built levees


 * Time Periods: **
 * 1750 B.C.
 * First civilization ends


 * Instiutions: **
 * Grid system
 * More than 100 systems
 * Harappan civilization
 * Indus valley civilization
 * Sophisticated city planniing
 * Citidel
 * Built to protect cities


 * Environmental Challanges: **
 * Monsoons
 * Seasonal winds
 * Too much rain = floods that swept away villages
 * Flooding of river was unpredictable
 * Little rain = plants withered, people starved.
 * There is a cycle of wet and dry seasons
 * Brought by the monsoon winds
 * Was unpredictable
 * Levees, platforms
 * Used agains environmental challanges

**Geography**:
 * Two rivers
 * Indus River
 * Gonges River
 * Subcontinent
 * Includes India, Bangladesh
 * Yearly floods spread deposits of rich soil over a wide area
 * Floods monsoons

Caste System:
 * There were 4 main groups
 * Brahmins
 * Priests
 * Kshatriyas
 * Warriors and Kings
 * Vaishyas
 * Traders and Farmers
 * Shudras
 * Laborers and Artisans
 * Marrying or openly cohabiting with a mate of a caste lower than yours usually results in the person of the higher - caste moving down the the status of the lower - caste person.