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The Indus valley is now located in Pakistan and India. The civilization started in 2500 and lasted until 1700 B.C., along the same time as the Nile river and Tigris and Euphrates civilizations occurred. It was the biggest civilization at the time. Here are the facts of the Indus valley.





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The population in the Indus valley is about 5 million. Towns have been being found since 1920 for about 100 years people where finding new lands. There were two typical layouts of the towns in the large areas. Most of the land had home and shops on the sides of the roads and streets, with running well water. Houses were laid out in the grid form. The other typical layout is a building on a flat form to be safe for river flooding.=====

Highly Organized Religions.
India's (Indus River Valley) was the was were one of the world's earliest civilizations. After invasions by Indo-Aryans and Macedonians, India gave birth to the major religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism (Dhramic religions). But by the beginning of the modern era, Islamic conquerors ruled India.Indian religions are at the second place after Abrahamic ones. Hinduism and Buddhism religion are the world’s 3rd – and 4th-largest religions respectively, with around 1.4 billion people following them.

Social Classes.
In ancient India, society was divided into four parts (varnas): brahmins, kshatriyas, vaisyas, and sudras. The Rajputs eventually came to take over the place in society of the kshatriyas. In that ancient era, this system was very fluid and flexible. Ibbetson writes in his book, "In the earlier Hinduism we find that, while caste distinctions were primarily based upon occupation, considerable license in this respect was permitted to the several castes, while the possibility of the individual rising [or falling] from one caste to another was distinctly recognized (4)."The original point of caste was to make a convenient social structure to the Indian civilization, with the actions of a person determining their rank in society. A parallel may be drawn to the West's social classification of people into different classes such as the middle class and the wealthy class. A persons accumulation of wealth can easily propel them from one class to another.However, this basic Indian classification would eventually be made bigger and intolerably abused. Different levels of status came to be associated with each caste, and changing one's status in life becamebasically impossible. As a result, the caste system of today hardly represents its original intent and has lost much of its intended usefulness. In fact, the mere mention of the word "caste" nowadays brings negative connotations to many people's minds.

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-Writing and Record Keeping – The Indus people were the only people that could read what they had written, to this day no one knows more than and Indus person because we still can’t figure out what they have written. The Indus people wrote on seals, pottery, and other objects. Some things people have found out about the Indus people is from the record keeping of Mesopotamian  **Art and Architecture** The indus valley people made sculptures, they also made little figures. They made jewlery, pottery and their own weapons. The architecture they had was very different from the way things look today. They had a place call "The Great Bath" The story behind the big bath is still unknown but people believe it was used for ritual bathing and/or religious ceremonies. 

central government and law
Indus valley had a well organized government. People who have powerful powers and kings-priests make sure the cities supply of grain is steady from the villages. Building with certain patterns and sizes of bricks suggests government planners at work. Theses people have to have good math skills and also be able to put together layouts for cities. work cited- [] []

Specialized Jobs.
Like most other early civilizations, most ancient indian people were farmers.But not every was a farmer they also had merchants and traders.They had ships that carried cargoes of cotton cloth, grain, cooper, pearls,and ivory combs to distant lands.

Public Works.
The indus valley people lived in two or one story houses and they also work very colorful clothing. The women wore gold all the time.They were very good farmers and had great food to eat that they had harvested.