The Indus Valley People are the earliest to develop in the subcontinent of India. This culture developed around 3000 B.C. They survived from their own farming, growing rice and grain, and cotton. The two large main urban settlements were Harappa and Mohenjo-daro; these public places had drainage systems. The Indus Valley People invented a hieroglyphic script, which was carved in stones; they also had made lots of pottery. Around 1700 B.C., this civilization started to disappear and the Aryans took over.
The book believes that the Ayrans were the founders of the culture in Indian. This cultures origin is unclear, but they brought India their most important aspects: language, which is Sanskrit, and religion, which is Hinduism. Hindu's text, the Vedas, was the first written down art around 1000 B.C. As the years passed the religion Hinduism turned into a philosophical vision of life. The Hinduism people started to question life and did lots of yoga to become one with each other. Ayran society started to divide into social classes, the priestly class was the highest class.
I find it interesting that people would change their whole lives for their religion, for example, Hinduism. I think it is a smart religion, honestly who likes fighting anyway? But to leave family and quiet everything they were doing for their religion. I like how they would travel to other cities to tell about their religion, trying to get more people involved. I suppose it shows devotion to something I guess.
