The Indus Valley / Harappan Civilization - Five Things You Should Know

We can all take a few minutes out of our day to learn some world history. Here are five things that you can quickly learn and should know about the Indus Valley, also known as Harappan, Civilization.
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Sources and Suggested Reading:
The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Ashoka - Robin Coningham and Ruth Young
The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives - Jane R. McIntosh
The Indus Civilization - Irfan Habib
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective - Gregory Posselh
India: The Ancient Past - Burjor Avari
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Vol. III - Ed. by Jack Sasson
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[@Frostedminifirecracker]

When I was in 7th grade I became fascinated with Harappan civilization. I’m 72 and still read everything I can.

[@mulematt6225]

The Indus Valley has swiftly become one of the top ancient civilization I enjoy learning about. Thank you Cy

[@HistorywithCy]

My pleasure... it's recently become one of my favorites to research too. Thanks for watching!

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

As a Greek i see the Harappan/Indus valley civilization as the indian equivalent to our minoan civilization because just like them they are mysterious very early civilizations with still undecypherable scripts that most certainly where major powers in their time periods

[@njord_wc3582]

Well, both are Aryan in origin.

[@saiputcha1730]

In fact there were 150 ships from ancient Greece and Rome that came to ancient India in order to learn science, philosophy, and technology from the Indians. Ancient India educated the entire world, it is the Vishwaguru.

[@iexist3919]

What a beautiful and mysterious civilization.

[@HistorywithCy]

Agreed, thanks for watching!

[@BrokenSoldier1515]

We are not mysterious 😰 we still exist today on the indian sub-continent.

[@PRDreams]

Do more like this one! This is great to introduce us to an episode we might be interested in watching.❤

[@HistorywithCy]

Will do, experimenting with this short format in between the longer videos so that you don't have to keep waiting for next stuff. Thanks for watching!

[@erichtomanek4739]

Excellent video concise, informative and visually appealing. Though, I really do enjoy your long form content! As for the Indus River Civilization; so many questions, so few answers! I must go about and build a Time Machine!

[@WanaxTV]

Learned so much about Harappan civilization from History with Cy. Very interesting culture. Great job!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks buddy, appreciate the support! So glad you're enjoying these!

[@fgtrhwu2]

Thank you. You are right it's so hard to find time these days to watch those long informative videos though I do try. These shorter ones are wonderful. Continue the good work

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Thank you for the quick summary Cy. Love your channel, keep up the good work!

[@HistorywithCy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching this short video! More on the way, stay tuned!

[@Dr_Enoch_Metatron]

excellent top notch presentation. billion galactic thanks

[@HistorywithCy]

My pleasure, thanks a billion for watching!

[@IranTalk]

Excellent work, Cy! Keep it up. It's always a pleasure watching your videos.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks baradar, appreciate the kind words!

[@TypicalidiotGuy]

One of my favorites!

[@vazak11]

Love these videos, great work!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you!

[@PoliticalFuturism]

Excellent little video Cy!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks man, glad you found this tiny video useful...the next vid is not so tiny!

[@ruthnovena40]

Thank you for this summary.of known facts. .

[@HistorywithCy]

You're welcome!

[@clarenceonyekwere5428]

Great work. This is an interesting new format, all the best.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks! I'll experiment with it a bit more...want to give you all something to watch and ponder in between the larger videos. Thanks for watching this short one!

[@thefreemonk6938]

Your channel is so underrated

[@keithtarrier4558]

Yes, I would LOVE to!

[@johnssmith4005]

Can you do a video on the relationship between civilizations South of the Black Sea and the ones on the West and North of the Black Sea .

[@sjoerdjuxta]

great stuff

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks!

[@PyramidQuest]

great video!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks!

[@John_O_Connor]

I will visit Harappa very soon. Pakistan Zindabad ❤🇵🇰

[@artlover838]

Lord Krishna (blue coloured hindu god) was a historic person, who was a part of harappan civilization. His city(dwaraka) submerged after his death, and dwarka remains were found underwater, and all the remains suggested that it was a part of harappan civilization. And interestingly, the location of the remains were exactly like what was told in hindu sacred texts. The harappan civilization was mainly concentrated on the banks of the historic(dried) river saraswathi.

[@Vor567tez]

Hold up a sec. That make no sense. 1. Lord Krishna is mythological figure not real. 2. Even if he is believed to be a human. The society mentioned at his time is exactly like of Gupta period which happened in 3rd century AD. Remember, he from Kstryia caste (warrior class)? The social and cultural structure doesn't match anything with Indus ,(if it did wouldn't it so easier) . And that's bcs he is written after Aryans came in northern India and were already living in there for almost 500-1000yrs . Furthermore ,In 1800s when Indianologist were collecting Indian history from locals they were told Hindu civilization started at banks of river Ganga. Even the Ved and Purans testify that. So it clearly proves by 1800s Indians themselves had no idea about Harappan civilization. 3. Beside that he is born in Mahabharat time period. Chronologically Rayamayan comes before Mahabharat. (Both r mythology epics but still for sake of it let's believe it happened.) So if you say he is born in Indus time period than when did Ramayana happened? In time of dinosaur? Please don't tell me yes it happened. 😐

[@saiputcha1730]

​@@Vor567tezthe fact that you used the words "aryan" shows that you know nothing about Indian history. There is no proof for aryan invasion, anyone who believes in that rubbish is a fool.

[@jhonviel7381]

those are trading cards, not seals or amulets.

[@ievuiru]

The great Bath at mohan ja daro can be seen replicated in most temple complexes of TamilNadu south India.

[@SmokingPuss]

I like the shorter videos 👍

[@planetlondon6145]

Has there been any relationship found between the Elamite and the people of the Indus valley civilization apart from trade ? As far as I know that the Elamites came from some other place. And it is not known where the people of Indus valley civilization migrated because of gradual and hostile climate change that happened over hundred of years? It is clear that both the people of Indus valley and Elamite civilizations held cow at high esteem.A researcher of India claimed that the people from Indus valley civilization might have migrated to that area due the gradual climatic catastrophe. I also see the similarity between the city planning and structure of the construction of Indus valley civilization and the Elamite.

[@henkstersmacro-world]

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[@Pranav-vb5ho]

Is it true that Harappan civilization was based more on the Saraswati River (Ghaggar-Hakra) than the Indus River? The expanse of the civilization with major cities (like Rakhigarhi, and Kalibangan) are far from the Indus river and are situated on the banks of ancient river Saraswati. What is the consensus on that?

[@ievuiru]

The Indus Valley Civilization appears to have been governed the way rural south India is. That is by q loosely formed Council of Elders often assisted by experts in specific fields.Funds donated as remuneration are seriously shared equally

[@ALIKN1-1]

I didn’t know that Pakistan had this ancient background

[@yokaiou5848]

Its too bad we can't read their writting. All we can hope is to find a Rosetta Stone or AI might be able to find a cypher.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

Bronze Age Video = Like and Save 😻

[@Emcee_Squared]

maybe Ai will decipher their script?

[@HistorywithCy]

That would be amazing...they're already attempting to use it for cuneiform texts, though with varying degrees of success. The same Sumerian and Akkadian signs and texts can mean different things depending on the context, and I've read that so far AI has some problem with that so a trained specialist is still needed. Anyway, thanks for watching!

[@Emcee_Squared]

@@HistorywithCy yes i had read that too, i'm sure there's some issues but they will eventually be overcome

[@ievuiru]

The evacuation of the IVC happened in 1900c. The coming of the Aryans the Vedic people happened in 1500nc. A lapse of 400 years. So the IVC never crossed paths with the Vedic people

[@beepboop204]

[@playhard719]

Correction: the Harrapan core was not based of the Indus river, it's actually concentrated around the now dried up Saraswathi river, I wonder why the westerners still wants to throw around the decades old data.

[@ievuiru]

The Indus Valley Civilization did not decline as a conequence of natural xauses or disappear because of a violent invasion. There is an absense of human remains consistant with violent death. The only explation for the dissappearence if 5 million people is systemàtic xomprehensive Evacuation which was successfully completed. Following the evacutuion the IVC inhabitants migrated east and south and setling down eventually mixing with local hunter gathers and bring known as ASI. In the meanwhile the IVC remained abandoned for 400 years till Pastorolist from Europe and Central Asia settled the Valley in 1500bc bringing new language,religion snd Vedic culture . Also male biased groups invaded the indo gangetic plain the genetics the ANI followed .

[@kokoci324]

The Indus seal in similar to the tradisional in south India - the symbol of the horned, cross-legged male seal may be proto-Murugan - Indus people will also offer sacrificial animal to Murugan like the indus seal and the offering bowl is called Pirappu - the symbol of a Person carrying two scales on the Indus seal may be the tradition of Kavadi aattam, an offering to Murugan

[@Vor567tez]

Are you talking about 2:10 for the last? It's not scale , it's a man holding two tigers. Some think it's Gilgamesh from Sumerians-Babaloynian culture bcs it strikingly resembles to the popular iconography of him. It's possible bcs others seals have been found showing a trade btw these two civilization. As for Lord Murugan, he doesn't wear horn tho. Can please elaborate why you reached to that conclusion? 🤔

[@kokoci324]

@@Vor567tez You can read on Quora about the meaning of the Pashupati symbol. Because the Indus symbol is closely related to the south Indian symbol from the early sangam periode.

[@Vor567tez]

@@kokoci324 I have only seen it being related to Shiva but never Murugan and the evidences are all taken from Ved which was written after Aryan came. So they don't really hold up that much. Can you provide me the link ,that will be helpful.

[@kokoci324]

@@Vor567tez search in Quora about the meaning of the Pashupati symbol

[@kokoci324]

@@Vor567tez Additional informatika 👌 Not at 2.10 and not in this video. But the symbol of a person carrying scales is in the Tammuz symbol. The symbol was found in Susa and some believe it may be Kavadi attam.

[@Vor567tez]

2:10 it looks like Gilgamesh. Has there been any study to decipher Indus script through Sumerian text? I know it's very small material but just to see. 🤔

[@scottnunnemaker5209]

There’s just not enough info for me to get interested. Maybe if we decipher the script one day we’ll have something interesting, but right now it’s just a whole lot of nothing. We can’t really make any claims about anything they did, believed or any kind of moral code at all. Pretty much the only conclusions we can make about them was they built well.

[@heyitstig6559]

The central figure in the Pashupati seal resembles Brahma with respect to the multiple heads.

[@sonarbangla8711]

The nonviolent metrological lifestyle of the Harappan civilization, originated in the Puranic age by the Yadava tribe, which was preached Sanatan religion by Krishna: DO UNTO OTHERS AS TOU LIKE OTHERS TO CO UNTO YOU. The Yadava were the first to create human civilization, blessed by the first and the oldest monotheistic God Vishnu.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Were they Dravidians?

[@Bhuvanfire]

More like ancient Tamil people

[@rahulm2827]

the only thing you need to know about this civilization is: there has been too much talked and written about it by christians (complete outsiders) to manipulate history writing.

[@wisemen8085]

In the Bible, land of "Mesopo6tomia" was mentioned. (Acts 7:2 )...... Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia.....

[@rahulm2827]

@@wisemen8085 this is INDIA. not mesopotamia. and to elaborate why i'm fed up with christians writing and talking endlessly about cultures not their own: 1. christians arent interested even a bit in studying their own european pagan history, pre-dating christianity. all their history books tell them is that europe was dark place, obsessed with black magic and human sacrifice and then jesus came and all was well. no word about the brutal onslaught of pagans to make europe christian, no word about christian crimes. all lies. 2. the same type of lies are imposed on other cultures and civilizations too: "the egyptian pyramids were tombs", "the south american pyramids held ritualistic significance in ... guess what... human sacrifice". and the mohenjodaro culture specially has been misused by christian history inventors to prove the infamous "aryan invasion theory", (has been disproved multiple times until now), misused to prove that indian ppl arent a race, misused to create rifts and fights between north indians and south indians. and the same christian lobbies even today fund the so called "dravidian separatism" in india based on the same christian lies as 200 years ago. its TIME that jesus is dethroned. all he dies is spread lies and brutality. there are human beings that want to KNOW the truth. as long as christian lobbies control all ancient sites and archealogical institutions, the truth will be kept on being surpressed and all evidence destroyed.

[@owithani]

the wall of religious propaganda surrounding the IVC comes from Hindu nationalists not christians. Besides being an outsider or insider isn't important as long as you maintain academic honesty.

[@rahulm2827]

@@owithani yes, because the entire media, all school books, the entire fking world system belongs to hindus, right? i cant get over the audacity of some ppl. christians after having performed the worst and most unspeakable genozides and their cover-ups still hold their index finger against other ppl for no good reason at all. no shame. no regret. no humanity. seriously. fk christianity. fk jesus.

[@PahadiSher]

Lol. Says the people who propagated Aryan Invasion theory & martial race theory to divide & rule. The western "experts" also dismissed the possibility of Saraswati river existing (now proved via actual science) along which new sites are being found. You people are habitual liars & it is a proven fact.

[@decem_sagittae]

They had sewers and toilets 5000 years ago while modern-day India and Pakistan..... 😂😂😂

[@TinMan2u]

Disliked only to get your undivided attention. Thank you for your light. Saved to the appropriate playlist for this account. Verifiable.

[@iexist3919]

Silence bot

[@majidbineshgar7156]

That statue of an Indus Valley man demonstrates more Nordic physiognomy/phenotype features i.e. straight hair deep-set eyes long narrow straight grácil nose ... original Aryans ?.

[@avik4343]

Nah. Most Indian were and are like that

[@avik4343]

And yes Aryas were not from Europe as claimed by those 20th century European historians. Arya in Sanskrit means civilized, at that time the only civilized nation was India ( Aryavarta or the land of Aryas). Going beyond the border of Aryavarta was considered impure.

[@diawelibrahima6742]

...the indus or indians,pakistani as you want ,come from the Dravidians and the dravidians are the1 st peoples of Ethiopia who left to immgrate to Asia ...you don't know what you're saying if there are lies about the origins that means almost everything is wrong ...but why? ..maybe jealousy?

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

Bah, I knew all of this already -- I watched this dude's video recently... :-)

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha nice! Have you been doing the quizzes? How are those going? As always thanks for watching!

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

@@HistorywithCy Always happy to watch....quizzes?

[@HistorywithCy]

@@TheRedneckPreppy Oh I've been posting them just for fun in the community tab...they should show up while your feed from time to time. I thought you might like them since you've seen so many of these videos (which I'm totally grateful for!). Anyway have a great week!

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

@@HistorywithCy Golly, I never see them in my feed. Okay, now instead of going to bed I have homework, ha ha! Have a great one yourself! Edit: I did them all and missed two. Could be better, could be worse!

[@HistorywithCy]

@@TheRedneckPreppy nice! That's actually pretty good. The average for all of them is about 60% correct.