The Indus valley tribes of peoples also have one of the
remaining mysteries of the world today- an untranslatable written language. The
art of the bronze and Stone Age is detailed and sophisticated for this time
period. The Dancing Girl and other sculptures appear to be very close to scale.
That has not been typical of ancient art in other cultures. When the Aryans
invaded, the population of the region changed dramatically from dark-skinned to
lighter-skinned peoples and introduced a new language that is now the classic
language of India. The Aryans also had an effect on the social class divisions.
From the untouchables, the people with the lowliest jobs, up to the priests and
scholars- the most highly regarded professions in the society. This caste
system was strict and very hard on the lower classes. Two of India’s greatest
stories, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, come from inner conflict within the
Aryans. Both epic accounts are as equally valued in this society as the Iliad
and the Odyssey are in Hellenic cultures. The Vedas, to the ancient
civilizations of the Indus Valley, was a combination of songbook, prayer book,
religious guide, and astronomy text. It also was a book about the gods. Namely
the sky, fire, and sun gods, as they are the most important. Hinduism, one of
the oldest religions in the world, comes from the Indus Valley. There are some
theories to explain how the Indus Valley Civilization ended. One theory is by
the first excavators, which is that because the Indus Valley Civilization was
not warlike society, it was ended by the Aryan invasion. There is no perfect
proof to show it really happened but excavators found Jewries left as they were
hidden from somebody, skeletons with no head-part, dead bodies in one place as
they were hiding and so on. Other theories were by later excavators. One is
that flooding caused disappearance of Indus Civilization. Flooding put the end
to their agriculture and because their living was depended on agriculture, the Civilization
was ended. Another theory is that because the Indus Valley Civilization was
growing and population was growing, they needed more bricks to build houses. To
make bricks, they needed more woods and they cut down too much trees and they
could no longer support their needs. Whatever the reason of the disappearance
was, culture in the Indus Valley Civilization was changed. The reason of the
culture change could be new people came in or change of peoples thought had changed. Excavators found out that bricks made
before the disappearance and after the disappearance was very different. The
quality of bricks got worse after the disappearance. Another thing was that
before the disappearance, people used to be buried but after, dead bodies were
cremated. Because of these factors, it might be the change of the people who
lived there.
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