Harappan Culture
By: Ty Watson
Language
- About 400 Symbols
- Found on seals and stamps
- Impossible to decipher
- Signs can be alone or combined
Culture
- Not a split social structure
- Not a lot of conflict
- Animals were important part of culture
- Everything was uniform in size
Religon
- Very close with their religion
- No temple has been found
- Prayed for good harvest
- Early representations of Shiva (Major Hindu God)
- Theocracy- The priest rules the city
Trade
- Thriving trade
- Gold and Silver came from the Afghanistan
- Semiprecious stones came from Persia
- Indus River made transportation of goods easy
- One of the only people who grew cotton