ANTHRO 41A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Indus River, Sarasvati River, Great Divergence

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

The orient express : civilization"s progress only heads westward (favors the west, mesopotamia, greece, rome, europe, and america most important. The european miracle: belief that europeans were superior and everyone else was inferior, all innovations and great minds came from europe. Cattle and sorghum africa (8,000/10,000 years) Mahenjo-daro is located in pakistan: made out of baked bricks, population = 40,000, flush toilet system, communal baths, priest-king statue in the city. Dholavira located in state of gujarat, along the ghagger hakra river: walls 15 meters high, population of 20,000. Harappa located along the indus river: jewelry made of carnelian, no signs of warfare of absolute monarch, over 300 characters in writing. City of mehrgarh is thought to be one of oldest cities in the indus region dating to about 10,000 years ago. These ancient cities had running water, reservoirs, public baths and a writing system. Many indus valley cities had ships and traded goods with mesopotamian cities.