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 * __India

Language__**
 * Harapan language was impossible to decifer
 * 400 symbols
 * __Trade__**
 * Traded a lot with Afganistan anf other places using the Indus River
 * Traded from 2600 B.C.-1800 B.C.
 * Gold and Silver from North Afganistan
 * Semi precious stones from Persia
 * Few people could grow cotton, so cotton clothes were desired
 * There were seals on goods for indentification
 * __Caste System__**
 * Can not move up in system only down
 * Had to marry in own caste or else shunned by your caste
 * Karma-the consequences of past deeds, dictates your next life
 * Dharma-the duty each person had that depended on caste, sex, and job
 * Brahmans-highest rank, priests
 * Kshatriyas-warriors and rulers
 * Vaishyas-landowners and merchents
 * Shudras-artisans and servents
 * "Untouchables"-preformed the worst of jobs and looked down upon by everyone
 * It is illegal to treat someone different based on their caste but castes are still around in India
 * __Geography__**
 * Large mountain ranges seperates India from the rest of asia
 * Large desert to the east as well as the mountains protects the Indus Valley from invasion
 * Two rivers, the Indus and the Ganges-help India trade with others
 * Yearly flooding, can't predict
 * __Religion[[image:Indus_river_valley.jpg width="272" height="189"]]__**
 * Preists prayed gor good harvest
 * Thought to be theocracy
 * Shiva-a major god
 * __Warfare__**
 * not many weopons found so probably no warfare
 * __Culture__**
 * Had toys to play with
 * Animals are thought to have been inmport-used in seals and family crests
 * Planned cities-well organized
 * Inside city was citidel for royals
 * __Agriculture__**
 * realied on Indus and Ganges to flood for fertile soil
 * __Architecture__**
 * made citidels in the center of the city
 * cities were scattered and not planned at first, but as they rebuilt them after floods they got more and more organized
 * eventually made perfectly planned cities and even had primitive ways of plumbing
 * __Decline in Civilization__**
 * Changes in tetonic plates caused rivers to change and dry up
 * Aryans invaded the Indus Valley
 * Indian people would rise again under the Aryans
 * __Government__**
 * not much is known since we can't deciefer their language but they believe it was a theocratic government
 * __Technology__**
 * had the technology to sail up and down rivers
 * had plumbing
 * organized cities
 * wheels and farming tools
 * had a written language (not yet deciefered)