ASIA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Persian People, Civilization Ii, Mohenjo-Daro
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Topic 1. a - antiquity: myths, histories and rituals: antiquity: vedic india. Thousands of settlements before 2500 bce to around 1800 bce when it peters out. (timeline available in the sourcebook) height around 2200-2000 bce when we have a major expansion of cities. It peters out after this until about 1500 bce when the vedic civilization began to expand. This civilization extended from the plains of n. afghanistan down the plans to the west coast of india. Thousands of cites have been examined that are believed to be linked to this civilization. They may have had writing - it looks like it but has been completely undeciphered so it cannot be stated absolutely that it is a written language. When do the great civilizations of asia begin? (and, are history and civilization the same thing?) While civilization perhaps describes human accomplishments in its most general sense, human history is known by one or more of the following:
