HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mekong, Chert, Chinese Philosophy
Mar. 13, 2017
ANT200 LECTURE 9
ASIAN STATES (Indus Valley, China, Angkor)
INDUS VALLEY (HARRAPAN) CIVILIZATION
***unparalleled city planning, Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa, elite areas (but leaders unknown –
control of trade?), corporate political strategy
• Because of monsoon seasons, fertile soil
• Different regions
- Baluchistan plateau
- Western hill country
- Great That desert
- Ghaggar-Hakra (Saraswati) River
- Melluha
MEHRGARCH: ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE
• In the Baluchistan foothills
• Settlement by 6500 BCE
• Agriculture by 5500 BCE
• Middle Eastern species
• No evidence for city planning (important component in the Indus Valley civilization)
• Had seen a shift to domesticated species
• Pre-Harrapan civilization
• Houses constructed out of mud brick with adobe on top, they are compartmentalized into
separate rooms and have both internal and external storage
• Adoption of agriculture was important
• Beginning of ceramics
• Some of the earliest lost-wax casting (Carving something out of wax, building a clay
mold around it, pouring hot metal into the mold, melting the wax and leaving a metal
shape)
• Earliest evidence for dentistry (used drills to fix cavities)
PRE-HARRAPAN PERIOD (Kot Diji)
• 3300 BCE – 2600 BCE
• large settlements
• regional economic integration
• clay potter’s marks, graffiti
HARRAPAN PERIOD
• 2600-1900 BCE
• Five urban centres
- Mohenjo-daro
- Harappa
- Ganweriwala
- Rakhigarhi
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Document Summary
), corporate political strategy: because of monsoon seasons, fertile soil, different regions. Pre-harrapan period (kot diji: 3300 bce 2600 bce large settlements regional economic integration, clay potter"s marks, graffiti. Harrapan period: 2600-1900 bce, five urban centres. Dholavira: harappan period, cities often walled, craft specialists, grid systems (suggests separate entities), courtyards, emphasis on hygiene, water was supplied in brick-lined wells, walls and gates, chert weights (for measuring and controlling trade), granary, Dholavira (has elite citadels, many houses, water-tanks) Localization era (1900-1300 bce: shift in indus river, drying up of saraswati, 1900 bce = new localized structures. Matrilineal social organization: longshan period 3000-2000 bce, settlement hierarchy. End of xia dynasty: shang dynasty. Shang concept of the city tombs, human sacrifice, sanxingdui: zhou dynasty. Chronology & culture history: xia dynasty (1800 bce, shang dynasty (ends circa 1045 bce, western zhou dynasty. Warring states period: qin dynasty china unified (221 bce) Burial complex (terra cotta warriors: han dynasty the silk road.
