Indus Valley

Beginnings Evidence of first civilization and religion to the region exists from 5500BCE Farming around 4000BCE Urbanization 3000BCE They had worked out how to employ drainage and irrigation

Language There was a formal writing language but it has not yet been translated successfully They would later develop Brahmi and Kharoshsti

Society would collapse Prolonged drought of the rivers destroyed the economy and much of the civilization was left in ruins around 1800BCE Around 1500 BCE some nomadic cattle herders entered the valley and redeveloped much of the land. Some archeologists believe these nomads may have destroyed what was left of a feeble society.

Beginnings of Indian Culture These nomads, called Aryans, brought Indo-European languages to the region Practiced the Caste system Early examples of Hindu gods