early+civilizations+jg

Intro: The **Indus Valley Civilization** (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving along the lower Indus River and the Ghaggar River-Hakra River in what is now [|Pakistan] and western [|India] from the twenty-eighth century B.C.E. to the eighteenth century B.C.E. Another name for this civilization is the **Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley**, in reference to its first excavated city of Harappa. The Indus Valley Civilization stands as one of the great early civilizations, alongside [|ancient Egypt] and [|Sumerian Civilization], as a place where human settlements organized into cities, invented a system of [|writing] and supported an advanced culture. [|Hinduism] and the culture of the Indian people can be regarded as having roots in the life and practices of this civilization. This was a flourishing culture, with artistic and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of people. The civilization appears to have been stable and its demise was probably due to climactic change, although the Aryan invasion theory (see below) suggests that it fell prey to marauding newcomers.
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