Indus civilization
- noun
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civilización del Indo
- The advanced drainage systems found in the ruins demonstrate the engineering skills of the Indus civilization.
The largest civilization of the Bronze Age, the Indus civilization just literally dried up from a drought.
- The largest civilization of the Bronze Age, the Indus civilization just literally dried up from a drought.
- So there was this population called the Indus civilization that was at the corner of northern India and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Some scholars hypothesized that the Indus civilization was heavily dependent on trade with far-flung regions such as Mesopotamia.
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It has been estimated that the Indus civilization encompassed hundreds of thousands of square miles.
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Such artifacts are part of the larger material record of the Indus civilization.
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So there was this population called the Indus civilization that was at the corner of northern India and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The largest civilization of the Bronze Age, the Indus civilization just literally dried up from a drought.
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Its destruction by Aryans is not the only alleged connection between the Indus civilization and Goddess religion.
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"The Indus civilization is an example of the rather general tendency to exploit the past for present-day political and nationalistic purposes," says Parpola.
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Prior to the discovery of the Indus civilization, South Asian culture was thought to have begun with Vedic culture, around 1300 B.C., and later Buddhist culture.
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"The tone was irritating because in the paper there were several rhetorical comments that depicted the Indus civilization as a minor, less complex society than Egypt and Sumer, and these comments revealed a basic lack of understanding."
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As the scale and sophistication of the Indus civilization became apparent in the 1920s, it was assumed that the script encoded one or more spoken languages and that vast archives with longer texts might be found.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Indus' names the river/region and 'civilization' denotes an organized culture, so a learner can infer this refers to the culture associated with the Indus Valley. While detailed historical dates require extra knowledge, the basic sense is predictable from the constituents and common across languages.
Etymology
Indus civilization comes from the name of the Indus River, where people long ago built towns and cities along its banks. Civilization here means their shared way of life, so today the phrase refers to that 'ancient society' in the Indus Valley.
