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	Indus Valley Civilization - MSN Encarta
		It is the earliest-known civilization of South Asia, and is contemporary with the Bronze Age civilizations of pre-dynastic Egypt, Crete, Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf, and Turkmenia (Central Asia); it was in contact with the latter three areas.
		Even though most Indus Valley settlements were located in semi-arid areas with low winter rainfall, their wealth, as in other Bronze Age civilizations, was based on a subsistence economy of wheat and barley.
		In the Indus Valley civilization, this is attested by a large number of steatite seals, each with an animal carved in negative relief and a line of script readable when the seal was stamped on a plastic surface.
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	Indus valley civilization – FREE Indus valley civilization Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, ...
		Indus valley civilization ancient civilization that flourished from about 2500 BC to about 1500 BC in the valley of the Indus River and its tributaries, in the northwestern portion of the Indian subcontinent, i.e., present-day Pakistan.
		The Indus civilization: Sudeshna Guha looks at the archaeology of the Indus Civilization, the Bronze Age phenomenon of South Asia, whose study began under the British and has continued since independence and partition of the country.
		Durga and the Dashain harvest festival from the Indus to Kathmandu Valleys.
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	Indus Valley Civilization - MSN Encarta
		Indus Valley Civilization (2500?-1700 bc), earliest known civilization of South Asia, corresponding to the Bronze Age cultures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete (Kríti).
		The Indus Valley civilization encompasses one of the largest geographical areas covered by a single Bronze Age culture.
		The Indus Valley civilization was first defined by the British archaeologist Sir John Marshall's diggings at Mohenjo-Daro and M. Vat's excavations at Harappā (both in what is now Pakistan) in the 1920s, and it is sometimes called Harappān civilization after the latter site.
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	Indus River Valley Civilization - by Jacob Eapen
		The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in south Asia and India was named after the Indus River Valley.
		The civilization was in the Indus River Valley from 3500 BC to 2500 BC.
		The Indus River Valley is east of the Fertile Crescent.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Indus Valley Civilization
		The mature (Harappan) phase of the IVC is contemporary to the Early to Middle Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East, in particular the Old Elamite period, Early Dynastic to Ur III Mesopotamia, Prepalatial Minoan Crete and Old Kingdom to First Intermediate Period Egypt.
		The Indus civilization appears to contradict the hydraulic despotism hypothesis of the origin of urban civilization and the state.
		It should be noted that only the easternmost section of the Indus Civilisation people could build their lives around the monsoon, a weather pattern in which the bulk of a year's rainfall occurs in a four-month period; others had to depend on the seasonal flooding of rivers caused by snow melt at high elevations.
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	Indus Valley Civilization
		The Indus civilization was predated by the first farming cultures in south Asia, which emerged in the hills of what is now called Balochistan, to the west of the Indus Valley.
		The Indus civilization appears to contradict the hydraulic despotism hypothesis of the origin of urban civilization and the state.
		It should be remembered that Indus civilization people, like all peoples in South Asia, built their lives around the monsoon,a weather pattern in which the bulk of a year's rainfall occurs in a four-month period.
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	Indus Valley Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The IVC is a candidate for the locus of Proto-Dravidian.
		The Indus Valley Civilisation extended from Balochistan to Gujarat, with an upward reach to Punjab from east of the river Jhelum to Rupar on the upper Sutlej.
		The Indus civilisation appears to contradict the hydraulic despotism hypothesis of the origin of urban civilization and the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization (4185 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization - Crystalinks
		The Indus civilization was predated by the first farming cultures in south Asia, which emerged in the hills of what is now called Balochistan, to the west of the Indus Valley.
		Indus civilization agriculture must have been highly productive; after all, it was capable of generating surpluses sufficient to support tens of thousands of urban residents who were not primarily engaged in agriculture.
		Unlike other ancient civilizations, the archaeological record of the Indus civilization provides practically no evidence of armies, kings, slaves, social conflict, prisons, and other oft-negative traits that we traditionally associate with early civilization, although this could simply be due to the sheer completeness of its collapse and subsequent disappearance.
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	History - The Indus Valley Civilisation
		Discovered in the 1920s, it was thought to have been confined to the valley of the river Indus, hence the name given to it was Indus Valley civilisation.
		This civilisation was a highly developed urban one and two of its towns, Mohenjodaro and Harappa, represent the high watermark of the settlements.
		Subsequent archaeological excavations established that the contours of this civilisation were not restricted to the Indus valley but spread to a wide area in northwestern and western India.
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	Indus Valley civilisation
		Among the Indus civilization's mysteries are fundamental questions, including its means of subsistence and the causes for its sudden disappearance beginning around 1900 BCE.
		The Indus civilization was predated by the first farming cultures in south Asia, which emerged in the hills of what is now called Balochistan, to the west of the Indus Valley.
		The Indus civilization grew out of this culture's technological base, as well as its geographic expansion into the alluvial plains of what are now the provinces of Sindh and Punjab in contemporary Pakistan and Northern India.
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	Impact of Dravidians on the Development of Civilisation in India
		Until the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization, the development of literature and culture in India was always credited to the Aryans.
		This civilization is one of the three great early civilizations that arose in the late fourth and third millennia BC around the three large alluvial systems of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers.
		This civilization was thought to have been confined to the valley of the river Indus, hence the name given to it was Indus Valley civilization.
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	Asia Society - Arts & Culture
		Most striking in the Indus valley civilization was its emphasis on the organization of everyday civic life.
		Other civilizations had monuments to their leaders, but the Indus valley city was a monument to its citizens.
		In contrast, the language of the Indus valley civilization remains a mystery.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/exhibitions_indus_valley.html (686 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization, Indus River Valley Civilization, Ancient Indus Valley Civilization
		The Indus Valley Civilization, or the Harappan Culture, was the contemporary of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and is acknowledged the third major civilization in the history of humankind.
		It was thus the administrative and religious nerve center of the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization.
		Another school of thought relates the demise of the Indus valley civilization to have been brought about by a major tectonic shift that caused continuous floods of this area.
	www.india.mapsofindia.com /the-country/ancient-history/indus-valley-civilization.html (906 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization
		Indus valley civilization was the only civilization where there was no war, no struggles, no revolts.
		The Indus valley people had also close commercial relation with Central Asia, the Arabian Gulf region and the distant Mesopotamian cities, such as Susa and Ur Excavations at Lothal reveals the existence of a dock supporting the activities of trade in that period.
		One of the most known figurines is perhaps the `dancing girl` (in bronze) naked but for a necklace and a series of bangles almost covering one arm, her hair dressed in a complicated coiffure, standing in a provocative posture, with one arm on her hip and one lanky leg half bent.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Indus Valley Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Indus Valley Civilization extended from Balochistan to Gujarat, with an upward reach to Punjab from east of the river Jhelum to Rupar on the upper Sutlej.
		In 2600 BCE, the Indus Valley was verdant, forested, and teeming with wildlife.
		The Indus civilization appears to disconfirm the Oriental Despotism[?] hypothesis, which is concerned with the origin of urban civilization and the state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indus-Valley-Civilization (1273 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization
		Following the partition of British India, the area of the IVC was divided between Pakistan and the India and excavations from this time include those led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1949, as archaeological adviser to the Government of Pakistan.
		It should be noted that Indus Civilisation people built their lives around the monsoon, a weather pattern in which the bulk of a year's rainfall occurs in a four-month period.
		In view of the large number of figurines found in the Indus valley, it has been suggested that the Harappan people worshipped a Mother goddess symbolizing fertility; however, this interpretation is not unanimously accepted.
	en.explicatus.org /wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization (4603 words)

	Pakistan - EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
		This civilization, which had a writing system, urban centers, and a diversified social and economic system, was discovered in the 1920s at its two most important sites: Mohenjo-daro, in Sindh near Sukkur, and Harappa, in Punjab south of Lahore (see fig.
		Indus Valley civilization was essentially a city culture sustained by surplus agricultural produce and extensive commerce, which included trade with Sumer in southern Mesopotamia in what is today modern Iraq.
		Nevertheless, extensive research on the Indus Valley sites, which has led to speculations on both the archaeological and the linguistic contributions of the pre--Aryan population to Hinduism's subsequent development, has offered new insights into the cultural heritage of the Dravidian population still dominant in southern India.
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	Definition & Synonyms of Indus Valley Civilization
		The Indus valley civilization belongs to the Bronze Age.
		The Indus Valley Civilization, beginning sometime around 2300 BC, developed in two major city areas along the river valleys of the Indus, Ravi, and Sutlej,...
		The Indus Valley Civilization, or the Harappan Culture, formed the earliest urban civilization on the sub-continent, and one of the earliest in the world.
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	Indus Valley civilization - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indus Valley civilization
		One of the four earliest ancient civilizations of the Old World (the other three being the Sumerian civilization of 3500
		Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were the two main city complexes, but many more existed along the Indus Valley, now in Pakistan.
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		The discoveries extended the civilization by 500 Km upto the north of the river Kim where another small Harappan part, Bhagatrav, gives access to the agate bearing mines and forest hills of the Narmada Tapi Valleys.
		Indus Valley civilization was one of the world's first great civilizations.
		The civilization began to flourish about 4,500 years ago and was centred in the vast river plains of what are now Pakistan and northwestern India.
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	Pakistan: Indus Valley Civilization
		Unlike written material recovered from the river Valley civilization of Egypt and Mesopotamia, including papyrus scrolls found in tombs, and long inscriptions on stone edifices, seals of Indus civilization have defied adequate and satisfactory decipherment.
		Indus Valley Civilization, which developed almost simultaneously with those of Nile and Euphrates in the earlier part of 3rd millennium.
		Indus Civilization had much in common with the later Vedic age, particularly in the religious sphere.
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	Indus valley civilization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indus valley civilization, ancient civilization that flourished from about 2500 B.C. to about 1500 B.C. in the valley of the Indus River and its tributaries, in the northwestern portion of the Indian subcontinent, i.e., present-day Pakistan.
		Indian art and architecture: Indus Valley Civilization - Indus Valley Civilization The earliest Indian art emerged from the valley of the Indus River during...
		Durga and the Dashain harvest festival from the Indus to Kathmandu Valleys.
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	Indus Valley Civilization Legacy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fertile river valleys, mountains and deserts of modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India were once witness to a sophisticated civilization whose pulsating vibrancy, sudden emergence and equally sudden demise are largely shrouded in mystery.
		Contemporaneous with the better-known ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China, but larger in extent than all of them combined, the collective memory of the Indus Valley Civilization nevertheless vanished without a trace from the human consciousness, until its ruins were serendipitously rediscovered by British and Indian archaeologists less than a century ago.
		The Indus valley civilization’s existence may have been forgotten at a conscious level, but many of the cultural, religious, and architectural paradigms that it spawned and personified are now second-nature - almost genetically innate - to the burgeoning peoples of modern-day India and Pakistan.
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	Indus Valley Civilization in Gujarat
		Indus Valley Civilization was one of the worlds first great civilization.
		The discoveries extended the civilization by 500 Km upto the north of the river Kim where another small Harappan part, Bhagatrav, gives access to the agate bearing mines and forest hills of the Narmada Tapi Valleys.
		The Indus dichotomy of dividing the city into a citadel or Acropolis and a Lower Town was followed in planning Lothal.
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