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Ancient India An Overview

Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

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Page 1: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Ancient India

An Overview

Page 2: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Basic chronology

c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus

in what is now Pakistan

c. 2500 BCE: high point of the Indus Valley civilization

c. 2000 BCE: some Indus sites showing signs of decline

c. 1500 BCE: the Aryan invasions

Page 3: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Indus Valley civilization

Right: artist’s recreation of Mohenjo-DaroBelow: Great Bath ruins

Page 4: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Mohenjo-Daro

Page 5: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Everyday life

Page 6: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Mysterious signifiers

Examples of the multitude of Harrapan clay seals whose meaning(s) still elude us

Page 7: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Aryan invaders

Below: an illustration of a scene from the Rig-Veda

Page 8: Ancient India An Overview. Basic chronology c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus in what is now Pakistan c. 2500

Alien gods and values

Below: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

Right: the monkey god

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Ancient India