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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.