What Happened to the Indus Valley Civilization?

[@robertpayne9009]

Thanks!

[@soham769]

Corrections: There weren't small towns and villages and two large cities - Harappa and Mohan Jo Daro. There were many more cities. Harappa and Mohan Jo Daro were not even the largest cities of the SSS (Sindhu aka Indus Saraswati Sabhyata aka civilisation), let apart the only two large cities. Rakhigarhi is the largest city. Other major ones include Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira etc.

[@rathy_v]

Indus Valley civilization was the distance of the Tamil earlier civilization of India and the world oldest civilization

[@jonswap9097]

The binary system was used for measuring indivisible weights on scales - for example weights of gemstones because it requires the minimum numbers of weights. The decimal system was used for divisible quantities i.e. volumes where measuring cups could be reused and counted on fingers. It is believed that they also invented octal (base 8) and hexadecimal (base 16) by grouping binary digits into threes or fours for brevity.

[@AutoNuggets]

This is my favorite ancient civilization becouse of its peaceful history and igaliterian lifestyle. We can learn a lot from this ancient gem.

[@ALtheelectrician]

Evidence shows they had different classes by different house sizes. But they don't have a clear political palace anywhere.

[@nagarajakm6374]

Well Explanation ❤

[@SivaguruP-o1c]

The graffiti symbols of both harappan civilization and keeladi in tamilnadu look similar. We can get the clue and decipher the indus script.😊

[@Sudip_Sarkar_Charles_Edwards]

I stopped watching when he said two big cities. Apparently he didnt know about kalibangan and lothal, bigger than harappa and mohenjodaro.

[@bob_greene]

when the narrator spoke of the bathhouses, i immediately thought of a conversation I had w/ a female from Iceland; she made it sound like bathing was much more than hygiene to her culture; as I recall her saying, "it's part of our religion"; perhaps some Vikings or early Russians were the Indus valley raiders

[@zzzzz653]

It is more likely that the Northern Europeans got their early religion and culture from migrants from Indus Valley when the civilization declined post 1900 BC.

[@SlimJim3082]

When the indus valley civilization collapsed I think they migrated anywhere else othwr than india. The indus valley had toilets and.bath houses, an alien concept to indians or south asians in general. Hygiene is foreign to them.

[@zzzzz653]

@@SlimJim3082 it is idiotic in the extreme to think that people who had toilets and excellent sanitation should continue to have that same level of sanitation after 4000 years. There are lots of ups & downs in the history of a people that take place over such a long period of time. And if you look at the most recent history of the past 200 years, the British ruined the Indian people. There was widespread famines, malnutrition, poverty & illiteracy. How can one expect such people to still maintain a high hygiene standard when you are dying of starvation and living in mud houses with no ability to read or write ?

[@helenamcginty4920]

Ever heard of convergent development? I first came across the term in horticulture. 2 unrelated plants living in a similar environment will develop similarly in order to survive. Ie become fit for their environment. The same hapoens with people. Different peoples in different lands develop similar infrastructure, culture, religions, etc because they are all human and their needs are the same. Plus Iceland wasn't settled until the 9th century while the Indus Valley culture ceased about 1300 BCE. So a gap of some 2000 years or more. And Iceland has hot springs and cold weather. What is more natural than to warm up in all that hit water. 😂

[@anamelessmonster]

It was destroyed by invaders brahman

[@strombreaker3446]

You mean floods was caused by brahamans

[@anamelessmonster]

@@strombreaker3446 it was genocide not floods..

[@strombreaker3446]

@@anamelessmonster genocide done by whom

[@anamelessmonster]

@@strombreaker3446 invaders

[@strombreaker3446]

@@anamelessmonster invaders India have been invaded by so many be specific

[@zahirhussain5913]

Probably, Mohenjo daro peoples are ancestors of dravidians.

[@50centgamer65]

Shaivaite civilization ❤

[@hydroxy]

Climate change, reduced rainfall, dry, drought, migration to the east, settle at Saraswati river fertile plain, emerging Vedic Civilisation

[@aqeelkhurshid4860]

Indus valley civilization is the civilisation of Sindh and Punjab. Pakistan is the land of river Indus and Indus valley

[@desireehelms8012]

They left because of war

[@ALtheelectrician]

There's nothing there. It's obviously they left due tp the changing climate. Probably a slow population decline until the city was too small to be defended and then probably finally abandoned for more fertile ground. The same thing is found in the Sahara with lost cities in the middle of the desert. The Sahara was once a green lush fertile jungle like a lot of Africa is today.

[@roshanchachane142]

Many factual errors in the videos. The Saraswati Sindhu Sabhyata had many big cities, bigger than Harappa and Mohenjodaro

[@vinod8june]

why jain people dont have their own country....? is the ans to your question

[@tarunch11]

Disappearance of the inhabitants of Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) without leaving a clue seems to be as mysterious as the disappearance of Dinosaur from the surface of the earth, which is believed to have occurred due to dropping of a giant size meteor on the surface of the earth. Likewise, just imagine what would happen if a giant size meteor from the outer space dropped on the very source of the 'Indus River System' that flows out from glaciers around the Kailash mountain range of the Himalayas. The devastation caused by that impact would be sudden leaving no breathing time for the inhabitants for a gradual relocation as to leave behind clues. The instant deluge must have carried with it enormous amount of fertile silt at to completely bury the entire valley. The only survivors would be some traders and merchants who would have been far away to Mesopotamia on business trip-- only to find upon returning that their towns have sunk under the silt. So sad! But that paved the way for the Aryans to migrate and settle down there and initiate a 'rich agriculture village-based Vedic civilization' two hundred years later . (1700 BCE to 1500 BCE is the blank period in-between IVC and Vedic civilizations. Similarly the blank period between disappearance of Dinosaur and appearance of Primates is the order of 2 million years). Geologists need to explore any possibility of a meteor impact on the glassier.

[@mustafanisar4506]

Thank you for this video. Indus Valley Civilization was taught to us in school as part of Pakistani heritage, especially Mohenjodaro and Harappa. We were taught that the invading Hindu Aryan warriors wiped it out. I think that hypothesis is now being challenged. I was initially surprised to see Indians claiming it as part of their heritage. It does make sense since there are some sites in India. This civilization harkens back to a time where borders didn't exist and religion played a much smaller role in identity and culture.

[@zzzzz653]

Leaving aside the Indus civilization for a moment, you should still remember that India & Pakistan are also united by the so-called Arya languages. Languages such as Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Baluchi, Kashmiri, Pahadi, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali etc all descend from a common ancestor. We Indians rightly believe that these languages of ours did not come from outside but originated in the subcontinent itself of which the Indus civilization was its first urban iteration. Remember that the theories of the white man are not truth.

[@Dawah_Help]

@@zzzzz653 The Aryan languages encompass a vast geographical sphere outside South Asia e.g. IRAN & AFGHANISTAN. As for Bharat, the southern Deccan & North Eastern regions do not natively have the Indo-Aryan cultural adoption. Even today, there is vocal & sometimes violent resistance to Aryanization, a linguistic process e.g. RSS HINDI attempts in the South. Aryanization has often been accompanied by violence & resistance.

[@Dawah_Help]

@@zzzzz653 "Remember that the theories of the white man are not truth." > The WM being the 3% of Caucasian & Central Asian GENETICS?

[@Nopee395]

​@@Dawah_HelpWhen you said RSS you lost me

[@zzzzz653]

@@Dawah_Help while Iran & Afghanistan are geographically vast, in terms of population they are tiny compared to the Indian subcontinent. The Indo-Iranian speaker population was around 1.5 billion a few years back and out of these 1.3 are Indo-Aryan, only 200 million are Iranian. As for the resistance from South India, it is all a very modern phenomenon when the British played the divide & rule game and encouraged a separate Dravidian identity. You should know that historically all South Indian languages have undergone very heavy Sanskritic influence and today the Vedic knowledge is best preserved in Southern India and not in North India.

[@allahdinosamo7654]

The last attack on this civilization occurred in 1947 and has proved fatal . The alians from every direction have occupied the cities first belonged to Sindhi people. A great chunk of Sindhi Hindus were forcibly evacuated to India . Now Sindh has only archaeology to explore the world . All aspects of life that indicate a civilization have been eradicated in this land .

[@sumairster]

This civilization? Sindhis are as related to Indus Valley as Europeans are to the Aztecs and Incas. There were multiple waves of Aryans coming down from Central Asia. Hindu Sindhis are not the original inhabitants of the land nor can they claim descent from IVC. They are crying foul over people coming from elsewhere to take the land that their forefathers also took from someone else.

[@padmapinky4779]

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[@swaranbains8326]

Hinus Buddhists Muslims Sikhs

[@abc_cba]

Tbh, modern Indians have nothing to do with Indus Valley Civilization. Most of the sites we have in India were later Indus Valley Civilizations. We neither speak that undeciphered language, not does any of our Vedas or Puranas mentioned the Indus Vallet Civilization. Nor have we ever had the systematic drainage system like they had, if that was the case the public 💩 that our people do wouldn't have happened. Even now, the seals they discovered are not proven to be of any Indian deity but for the sake of views many have just named it pashupati seal, which is not even true as per many archaeologists. This would trigger an ego issue with our people who are not used to handling facts, hopefully this topic doesn't cause fights in the comment section. Pakistanis on the other hand don't even claim their own native heritage, which is even more saddening. That's just why I have huge respect for the Mayans(minus the human sacrifices) and I consider the Yellow River Civilization of China to be more refined and those people still have been continuing their heritage.

[@rustynails68]

The Indian culture produces the best scientist, engineers and medical doctors. The Indian children win most of all spelling bees. And yet, India still suffers from the diseases of poor plumbing. I would like to understand how that happened.

[@bob_greene]

agreed; the video made it sound like there was already what we might equate to a sewer system like Egypt was accredited as having pretty much before most other cultures; history also showed that open sewers are the source for disease such as the "black death" that wiped out many Europeans

[@abc_cba]

@@bob_greene cholera that caused multi-millions of deaths worldwide and still causes an epidemic in African countries originates from the later phases of the river Ganges. It all happened due to open defecation. People here have improved but yet, Calling Ganges River as Goddess and it being one the world's most unclean rivers is very contrary.

[@paulthomas281]

@@rustynails68 That is a very complicated issue. Basically, intelligence has been, one could say, genetically and socially clustered at the upper echelons of Indian society. In most of India, Indians are not raised to pursue the path of knowledge and use their brains. Only a radical shift in how public education functions will produce any changes. But that is looking very, very, very bleak. MOST INDIANS would struggle a lot while learning Sanskrit. So, why don't those few intelligent Indians in the upper echelons in India today do anything good and useful for society? Well, this is again complicated. Indians of all castes and communities are not raised to be human beings. Indians are not raised to see their fellow human beings as other human beings. Indians have NO social consciousness, and have ZERO interest in building society, have ZERO interest in governance and creating anything remotely wonderful for humanity. India will never be Israel or Germany or Canada or Scandinavia or Japan or the USA. Indians don't care enough. Integral humanism might have been there in Ancient India, but that is too long ago. You also have to keep in mind that INDIA WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND (all of North and North-West India) because of the Islamic conquests. We lost ALL our universities. We lost ALL our great cities. And with the British, our resources were plundered. There are just so many reasons why India is the way it is. It is hard to believe, but India during Late Antiquity and up into the Middle Ages had its own Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Rome, Lyon, Munich, Dresden, etc. ALL THAT IS GONE. Buddhism is gone. The Vedic civilisation and what is spawned is gone. Sanskrit is gone. No. INDIA does not produce "the best" scientists, engineers. North America and Europe produces THE BEST scientists and engineers. Westerners are the ones who have written 99% of the great scientific textbooks of the last 100 years, not Indians. Westerners are the ones with the greatest centres of learning and research. Sure, Indians and Persians and Chinese and Japanese excel in these institutions. And now, China and Japan have top-notch universities. But Indians are not the best at anything. Okay, yes ... India had so many genius mathematicians for two thousand years. Yes, the earliest discoveries in infinitesimal calculus and differential calculus were made in India. But who cares? That was 600-700 years ago.

[@paulthomas281]

@abc_cba It's so funny you say that. I have been thinking the same thing myself lately. The Indus Civilisation is actually a foreign thing. It bears so little resemblance to how India and Indians would become.

[@ranjithkumarnagarajan2874]

Interesting! Indus valley civilization more related with Tamils only. because many excavation recently in Taminadu, graffities reviled resemblance of signs, mother god devotion, buffalo, Jallikattu game, building construction, measuring system and more.

[@CHRS-ri5mf]

NO, many Rural Areas in Tibet, North, Northern India parts Also Share the Similarities not Only Tamils Also Oldest Evidence of Tamil is 6th Century BCE. IVC is 3300 BCE or More. Even Coming to DNa indigenous - Lm20 and J2. Northern India and West has More Of these DNA Compared to Tamils

[@swaranbains8326]

Funny bc they’re in completely far different parts of the country. U can’t make those conclusions off of similarities alone. It’s not a whole correlation

[@Pakiza-Ali]

Mohenjo Daro, Harrapa were largest Indus sites - as taught in Pakistan. Then then then ia the pre-Indus site such as Mehrgarh fond in west Pakistan only few miles from Afghan border.

[@swaranbains8326]

Pakistan isn’t even 100 years old.

[@d.c.monday4153]

Too much speculation.

[@yahqappu74]

It was a Tamizh Samana Tantra Aaseevagam civilization...

[@CHRS-ri5mf]

No Direct evidences of Tamil or any Dravidian Language there. Oldest evidence of Tamil is 600 BC according to Tamil Nadu archeological sites. IVC is 3390 BC so No chance of it

[@yahqappu74]

@@CHRS-ri5mf more research are coming and going back in time keep updated...

[@plazmagaming2182]

@@CHRS-ri5mf Check out the indus graffiti marks in tamil nadu, clear evidence that indus and tamil people were connected

[@50centgamer65]

​@@yahqappu74lol it was gondi tribal shaivaite civilization

[@yahqappu74]

@@50centgamer65 sorry there was no Saivism then...

[@Dawah_Help]

They became the GENETIC & geographical locals i.e. PAKISTANIS & a tiny portion of Bharatis (old Punjab, Rajasthan & Gujarat). Later on the derivative culture was adopted by those without GENETIC connections to the IVC.

[@vishnuprasad3103]

😂

[@vishnuprasad3103]

That idiot gandhi and Nehru is the reason we lost this Sindh land ... soon we reclaim our lost land

[@racecar945]

😂

[@vivekanandbs1348]

epidemic killed most

[@RemusKingOfRome]

According to OzGeographics, an asteroid hit the Indian ocean about 5,000 years ago , sending a giant tidal wave north to India. This would have effected coastal dwellers. j

[@yapsiauwsoengie6507]

That was aphrodisiacs not steroid

[@HistoriasAsombrosas51]

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[@jayasurya13]

It is written very clearly in the Daritriya Samhita that the people of Indus Vally went to Kashmir to attend the Marriage ceremony of Lod Shiva. Earthquake jolted Indus Vally during their stay in Kashmir due to which all of them went to soudhi Arabia and became Arabs.

[@rudelas5303]

I appreciate your lesson; however, that BCE and CE bullshit is really offensive and hypocritical. We all know whatever the hell eras we are talking about are based on Jesus. So please cut the crap, and stop glorifying useless and imbecilic political correctness. Thanks.

[@swaranbains8326]

We use this system as it’s accepted in the mainstream

[@revermen3580]

​@@swaranbains8326 As if lol.

[@aqeelkhurshid4860]

Indus valley civilization predates all religions present in this region present today. Pakistani province of sindh gave this subcontinent its name and identity