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Carleton Sanskrit
Nataraj Goa
Bull/Shiva Sasseti
Pipal Jones
Dravidians Muller
Aryans Penka
I.V.C.
2700-1200 bc – Homogenous
Public baths, spiritual worship, drainage systems, streets, ect… (advanced civilization)
Form of government – priests and kings, uniformity of traditions, century of
conservatives (didn’t like change)
Communal system, river based economy, river navigation, domesticated animals.
Bronze Age technology, tools and weapons, gold and silver for jewelry. Hundreds of
seals/coins (currency?)
Example of a script. 400 hundred alphabets. Have not been able to decipher picto-
language.
A great deal of art. Art in homes, tools, toys, statues, ect...
o Found a bronze figure of a aborigine girl with her hand on her hip. (possible
descendents?)to
Becomes a Hindu precursor to Shiva.
Findings of animals carved in metal and stone.
o Squirrels; monkeys (often shown in sets of three. Precursor for hear, see,
speak no evil??)
Findings of elements of a religion. Seals found with carvings of the bull which is
known as Shiva in Hinduism
o Arguments over the idea of the bull/Shiva come from the IVC. (Hinduism was
later founded by the Aryans.
Nataraj – lord of the dance. (Shiva?)
Had a lot of different weapons but did not have the sword which becomes a big
problem when the Aryans invade.
Dravidians – the peoples of the IVC.
o Where did they come from? No one knows for sure but the theory is that
they were descendents of the Australian Aborigines. (a lot of similarities
between the two)
Theory produced by A.L. Basham
Andamar and Nicobar
o 1600-1500 bc, invaders (Aryans) come through the Khyber pass.
Aryans – light skinned, emerged from south Russia, tribal, barbaric
o Immigrations took place in three ways
1) Through Germany. 2) Middle East 3) to the Dravidians through India.
o For 300 hundred years, the Aryans invaded and destroyed the Dravidians.
o Why did the Dravidians fall/die?
Trouble in paradise (natural disasters such and floods and
earthquakes), economic decline, superstitious, homes began to fall into
ruins, and did not move away to rebuild.
The Dravidians were not the only race there. They were the majority
but evidence of some type of rebellion from the minority.
Series of floods from the Indus River. They did not move to higher
grounds
Final blow delivered by the Aryans. Aryans has and were masters of
the swords and horse. The I.V.C did not have the sword.