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Geography/Location
 * **madern day PaKistan**
 * **highest mountains in the world ( Hindukush, Karakorum, Himalayan ).**
 * **tall mtns in North**
 * **desert in East ( protect Indus Valley from invasions ).**
 * **Indus & Ganges River**
 * **Brahmaputa River flows to Bay of Bengal w/Ganges**
 * **Eastern + Westem Ghats - mountain range ( keeps most air from reaching platern ).**

Challenges
 * **levees/platforms**
 * **unpredictable flooding along Indus**
 * **Rivers changed course sometimes**
 * **Monsoons ( seasonal winds ) cycle of wet + dry seasons was unpredictable**
 * **too little rain (plants died hungry ppl.) too much rain ( floods swept villages).**
 * **from a constant flooding they learned from their mistallen and ouild better and better cities each line.**

Riligion
 * **Theocracy**
 * **Hindu culture**
 * **Shiva god**

Writing/Language
 * **impossible to decipher**
 * **language found on seals and stamps**
 * **no bilingual inscription**
 * **stand fer an object/phonetic sound**
 * **400 symbols ( look line fish standing up with hands )**

Culture/Cities
 * **domesticated sheep + goats**
 * **citedal ( fortified ) important parts of city were protected**
 * **Indus Valley ppl. were laying bricks for cities 2,500 B.C.**
 * **Buitt walls ( levees )**
 * **Built human made islands to Raise cities**
 * **Harapan civilization ( Indus valley civilization ) they call it Harapa bic they found a lot of juan there.**
 * **sophisticated cities ( plumbing/sewage )**

Time Period
 * 2500 B.C.

Architecture
 * mud-brick plat forms to protect from flooding
 * citadel ( inside a 1/2 mile wall ) protect Royal fam + Temple
 * Streets as wide as 30 ft.
 * sewage

Trade
 * Gold + silver come from N. in Afghan astan
 * stones from persia + Deccan Platean
 * Indus River good for transportation
 * overland routes: persia to caspian sea
 * seals found in sumer to identify Indus merchandise
 * truding began as early as 2600. B.C. until 1800 B.C.

Decline of Indus Valley
 * 1750 B.C. quality of buildings declined decayed
 * plate movements -- quakest floods ( altered course of Indus River )
 * some cities survired
 * may have caused another river Sarwati to dry up
 * trade = impossssible cities
 * Agriculture dried cut ( ferhups exhausted soil )

People
 * Aryans ( nomadic people from w. of HinduKush mtns )
 * 1500 B.C came Indus valley + anotehr civilization grew )
 * social class ( caste system )