RELG 101 Lecture 9: Religion 100 - Jan 14.docx
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Be very careful what sources you use: websites are often not reliable (www. harrappa. com reliable, the river indus, sind, indus: the beginning of the term hindu , this term is ambiguous in its meaning prior to the early 20th century, hinduism is too broad a term (ex. Can be compared with other ancient cultures (these assumptions can be problematic) imposing the present on the past: rosetta stone the key to deciphering hieroglyphics (same passage in three different languages, decline of indus valley civilization, no evidence of invasion (old, discredited theory, environmental change a good possibility, migrations by sanskrit speaking peoples over long period, through the decline of urban centred civilization, vedic indo aryan culture, movement of settlements up river in the mid 2nd century and 1st millennium bce, as the centralized cities of the indus valley civilization declined, a more dispersed and pastoral culture seems to have prevailed.
