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    The document provides an overview of ancient India, beginning with a basic chronology showing farming settlements along the Indus River around 3000 BCE and the height of the Indus Valley civilization around 2500 BCE, which began declining around 2000 BCE, followed by Aryan invasions around 1500 BCE. It describes the Indus Valley civilization and sites like Mohenjo-Daro, everyday life at that time, and mysterious clay seals of unknown meaning, as well as the Aryan invaders and how they brought alien gods and values compared to the earlier Indus culture.

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    The document provides an overview of ancient India, beginning with a basic chronology showing farming settlements along the Indus River around 3000 BCE and the height of the Indus Valley civilization around 2500 BCE, which began declining around 2000 BCE, followed by Aryan invasions around 1500 BCE. It describes the Indus Valley civilization and sites like Mohenjo-Daro, everyday life at that time, and mysterious clay seals of unknown meaning, as well as the Aryan invaders and how they brought alien gods and values compared to the earlier Indus culture.

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    Ancient India

    An Overview

    Basic chronology
    c. 3000 BCE: farming settlements appear along the valley of the river Indus
    in what is now Pakistan

    c. 2500 BCE: high point of the Indus Valley civilization c. 2000 BCE: some Indus sites showing signs of decline c. 1500 BCE: the Aryan invasions

    Indus Valley civilization


    Right: artists recreation of MohenjoDaro Below: Great Bath ruins

    Mohenjo-Daro

    Everyday life

    Mysterious signifiers
    Examples of the multitude of Harrapan clay seals whose meaning(s) still elude us

    Aryan invaders
    Below: an illustration of a scene from the RigVeda

    Alien gods and values


    Below: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva Right: the monkey god

    Ancient India

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