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Harrapeans - Coggle Diagram
Harrapeans
Politics
politics remain a mystery
Innovation + technology
lots of spices in food
Buildings were made from bricks
most advanced water storage and sanitation system
economics
spices
cloth and cotton textiles for clothing
traded food, cotton, timber, copper, and gold, pearls, stone products, ivory combs, beads, spices, peacock feathers, and inlay goods made from shell or bone
culture
All the cities shared a common culture
created sculpture, seals, pottery, and jewelry
Indus culture
No elaborate palaces, temples, or monuments of leaders, prisons, or slave quarters
Environment /geography
Indus River Valley
Indus culture covered area larger than Mesopotamia and Egypt cultures combined
The fifteen hundred Harappan cities and towns (contained about five million people)
Social
migrants from Southwest Asia mixed with northwest Indian people
evidence for an organized monarchy is minimal
Most likely each city was independent
(Governed by powerful merchant guild, council of commercial, landowning, and religious leaders?)
ruins contain few weapons (war was uncommon?)