Indus Valley Civilization Quotes

“is now generally accepted that the Indus Valley was one of the three Ancient east societies considered to be the cradles of civilization.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Many of the sites initially associated with the Indus Valley Civilization were in the portion of the Punjab”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“What we can now be certain of is that the Indus Valley Civilization (which is sometimes still referred to as the Harappan Civilization) was one of the earliest complex, urban human civilizations.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Although it was one of the first ancient civilizations to develop a system of writing, their texts have not been deciphered so we know little about the structure and organization of their society.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Indus Valley Civilization created cities 4,000 years ago which were carefully planned and had more than 30,000 occupants who lived in homes that featured baths and flush toilets.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“that time, the Indus Valley Civilization had been all but forgotten,”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“By the sixth century BCE, 16 great kingdoms, the Mahājanapadas, dominated present-day India”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“populated from 1800 BCE until the region was occupied by the forces of Alexander the Great in 325 BCE.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“they believe that a combination of factors, which include environmental changes combined with declining trade,”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“the theory that the Indus Valley Civilization was destroyed by an invasion is now largely discredited.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“However, nothing of this sort has been discovered.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“arts, crafts, and social structure which should”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“the Indus Valley Civilization had been conquered by another culture from the outside, there would have been an inevitable melding”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“or death in battle. It has also been noted that the Harappan culture had completely disappeared by 1300 BCE,”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“shown evidence of the sort of trauma that would be associated with a massacre”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“For example, it has noted that none of the apparently unburied bodies found in Indus Valley Civilization”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“but more recent re-assessment of the evidence has thrown this conclusion into doubt.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“which Wheeler took to be a record of the sack of Harappa.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Aryans and the indigenous people of the Indus Valley and even includes details of the Aryan conquest of “Hariyupia”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“which forms one of the four Vedas of Hinduism. These texts mention a war between incoming”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Wheeler combined this with a reading of the Rigveda, an ancient Indian Vedic Sanskrit text”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“The evidence for this included the discovery of numbers of unburied bodies in some Indus Valley Civilization cities”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“who arrived with well-organized armies and advanced weapons and swept the largely agrarian and peaceful Harappans aside.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“that the culture was destroyed following an invasion by Aryan migrants from central Asia”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“was written in 1953 by British historian and archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“One of the first academic books about this civilization, The Indus Civilization,”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“there was a widespread assumption that the destruction of this culture was caused by an invasion from outside the region.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Invasion. When historians first became aware of the existence of the Indus Valley Civilization in the 1920s,”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“but many historians doubt that this could account for the complete destruction of a culture which was so widespread and so diverse.”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“natural dams and deflecting the flow of the river, or perhaps it could have been caused by tectonic events—”
― Hourly History, Indus Valley Civilization: A History from Beginning to End