MMW 11 Chapter : MMW Textbook Notes (Dubois)

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Page Dubois

Document Summary

Harappan society: named after harrappa, one of two chief cities, developed in the indus, two problems we don"t know about harappan, hard to excavate and no one to decipher written records, foundations of harappan society. Like the nile the indus draws its waters from rain and melting snow in towering mountains(from hindu kush and himarlayas-world"s highest peaks. Indus deposits burden of rich soil in lowlands like nile. Sowed wheat and barley, meat from herds of cattle, indus first domesticated chickens. Pakistan and northern india- larger than egypt and mesopotamia. Harappa and mohenjo-daro big cities but not sure if they were political centers, no evidence of any political organization. Has city walls, a fortified citadel, and granary: suggest that they served as centers of political authority and where collected taxes. Both had marketplaces, temples, public buildings, broad streets. Mohenjo-daro had large pools maybe for religious or ritual purposes.