THE INDUS RIVER VALLEY

SOCIAL

• Women were subordinate to men
• Men have more rights
• Family and kinship- men were leaders of the family
• Varnas- spiritual leaders, Warriors, merchants, laborers and untouchables

POLITICS

• Government unknown
• Scholars look for how they are specialized
• Priests are the closest thing to leaders

Interactions

• Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa
• Disease- untouchables
• Mud bricks in ovens - deforestation
• Cities were abandoned
• Same time as Egypt and Mesopotamia

CULTURE

• religious symbols
• Ceremonial Bathing, yoga, ritual burning
• Few slaves
• Abandoned cities just discovered

economics

• Widespread trade
• --jewels, metals, crafts
• standardized systems
• "Middle man"