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~They lived in a Patriarchal society.
~The social class system was seperated in 4 sections. Brahmins(Preists, Leaders), Kshatriyas(warriors),Vaisyas(herd-ers, merchants,  farmers, craftspeople),  Sudras(farm workers, servants, slaves).
~Women were respected because they had the ability to reproduce and nurse children.

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~The people followed priest-kings that resided in compound raised above the cities.
~Several large cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro suggests that they could have had urban cities.
~The Indus Valley government was combined with religion.

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~Aryans, Indo-European speaking peoples originally from Central Asia traveled Persia through the Hindu Kush Montains over a period of several centuries.
~The 2 cities in the Indus Valley had city walls, temples, markets, and even a street system that was based on a grid.

~Infectious diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis were probably transmitted across the Indus Valley.

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~They had a sacred language, Sanskrit.
~They had a comonly used toung which will evolve into Hindi.
~They have the Vedas, Sanskrit for "knowledge" are a collection of Aryan religious Hymns, poem, and songs.

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~People of the Indus Valley, also known as Dravidians, made it agriculturally successful and used the flooding of the river to their advantage.
~Greatly depended on trade. Traded with Mesopotamia and within the civilization.
~The people of the Indus Valley farmed, herded, hunted, gathered, and fished. They raised cotton and cattle (and to a lesser extent, water buffalo, sheep, goats, and pigs), barley, wheat, chickpeas, mustard, sesame, and other plants.

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