Time Travelers Research Paper

What is civilization? Why is it so important? Civilization is an advanced state of human society in which a high level of culture; science industry, and government has been reached. It is important to know about civilizations because it was part of our history. Ancient civilizations arose all over the world. Civilizations began in America long before Europeans thought they did. Government is important to civilizations because if the government is not strong everything can fall. Even though people don’t know much about the Indus Valley, this essay explains why the Indus Valley was a failure because it didn’t have an army or big government.

One of the earliest evidences of human civilization in India is found in ancient Indus valley civilization. The Indus valley cities were one of the first cities that came into existence and formed the basis of civilization. Ancient civilization arose all over the world. Civilizations began in America long before Europeans thought they did. The earliest traces of civilization in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places close to the Indus River. The Indus Valley people domesticated animals, and harvested various crops such as cotton, peas, and barley. The Indus Valley people 5,000 years ago a nomadic people crossed the Himalayas and made their way into northwest India from Sumeria, now know as Iran. Once there, they settled near modern day Karachi, a rich land, where they found ample water, fodder, and fuel supply as well as clay fro making bricks. engaged in extensive trading. This information helps readers know about the background of the Indus valley.

Ancient Indus civilization had many strengths that made their valley more beneficial. One of the strengths they had was merchants trading. Cotton, lumber, grain, livestock, and other food stuffs were probably the major commodities of internal trade. The Aryans which were nomadic herders who left their homeland in steppes of southern Russia around 1800 B.C. and migrated southwestward. The Aryans began to settle in tribal villages. Their houses were made from bamboo and clay. Gradually, they spread as far as the Ganges Valley and started to plow the land and grow wheat and rice as well as keep animals. In my opinion I think this were great examples of strengths they had because they did good things like farming and not hunting which didn’t hurt anyone.

Although the Indus valley had strengths it also had weaknesses. The Indus valley people were not that big on schooling. Every Hindu village had a schoolmaster that would teach the boy children from the age of 5 through 8 years old. To them, discipline was the essence of schooling. Yet a Guru which is a teacher, would live with his student until the student was twenty, until the student was required to do chores for the Guru. All the subjects were of religious nature. Schooling has to do with government, because in school they learned a lot about religion, and religion was a big part of government. I think they didn’t have a strong government which wasn’t good because other civilizations could’ve attack them or take over their lands.
The civilization I chose to compare with mine is Minoans. They were located in the Greek Bronze Age. They traded with other nations. They had to gender inequality. They treated the man and woman the same. One similarity we had was that we didn’t have an army which made our civilizations a failure because they didn’t have nothing to protect themselves with. I think it was important to compare the Indus valley with another civilization to see different things each civilization does.

The Indus valley people didn’t hurt our society. I know this because in ancient India there were huge granaries where people could get their grain everyday. Their city had a grid pattern that many cities have. People in ancient India also knew what was expected of them for work each day. Farmers knew a lot about how to grow grain, metal workers what people needed. These people farmed, they weren’t hunters. From my point of view I don’t think they hurt our society.
In conclusion, this essay was about the Indus valley history and government. Even though there wasn’t much to say about the government because it is still a mystery, I am sure it was a big thing for the Indus valley people. They had lots of strengths and weaknesses but had similar things with other civilizations. History should be very important to people because it helps us learn of all the things that were going on in the ancient world and learn about our ancestors.