MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Indus River, Dravidian Languages, Indian Ocean

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Tale of the anklet southern indian tale. India is sometimes called the sub-continent included pakistan up until wwii: pakistan and bangladesh were once one state split officially to 2 later one. Mountains are up towards the north himalayas: ganges runs along base of himalayas. Harappan (indus valley) sites are on indus river: wiped out/ assimilated by aryans harappans were on decline already due to. Arabian sea is northern most part if india ocean between arabian peninsula and india. Indus river seeps into northern end of here. Aryans (indo-iranians) came from central asia: come from north west, over pakistan, displaced harappans supposedly, or the harappans were displaced by climate/ natural forces. Indo-european languages in north, dravidian languages in south. Arrived with aryans: dravidian: tamil, telugu, kannada. Constant warfare, iron weapons, petty monarchs, restraints of caste purity, and brahmin privileges stressed populations. Timeline: farming on indus valley 4000 bc, early indus cities 3500 2500, decline of harappan cities 1900.