The Indus Valley / Harappan Civilization - Five Things You Should Know

We can all take a few minutes out of our day to learn some world history. Here are five things that you can quickly learn and should know about the Indus Valley, also known as Harappan, Civilization.

Related Videos:

Introduction to the Seriously Underrated Indus Valley / Harappan Civilization

Exploring the Harappan City of Lothal (History and Walking Tour)

Sources and Suggested Reading:

The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Ashoka - Robin Coningham and Ruth Young
The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives - Jane R. McIntosh
The Indus Civilization - Irfan Habib
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective - Gregory Posselh
India: The Ancient Past - Burjor Avari
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Vol. III - Ed. by Jack Sasson

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[Frostedminifirecracker]

When I was in 7th grade I became fascinated with Harappan civilization. I’m 72 and still read everything I can.

[mulematt]

The Indus Valley has swiftly become one of the top ancient civilization I enjoy learning about. Thank you Cy

[iexist]

What a beautiful and mysterious civilization.

[WanaxTV]

Learned so much about Harappan civilization from History with Cy. Very interesting culture. Great job!

[PRDreams]

Do more like this one! This is great to introduce us to an episode we might be interested in watching.❤

[Dr_Enoch_Metatron]

excellent top notch presentation. billion galactic thanks

[erichtomanek]

Excellent video concise, informative and visually appealing.
Though, I really do enjoy your long form content!
As for the Indus River Civilization; so many questions, so few answers!
I must go about and build a Time Machine!

[dirckthedork-knight]

As a Greek i see the Harappan/Indus valley civilization as the indian equivalent to our minoan civilization because just like them they are mysterious very early civilizations with still undecypherable scripts that most certainly where major powers in their time periods

[geraldmeehan]

Thank you for the quick summary Cy. Love your channel, keep up the good work!

[fgtrhwu]

Thank you. You are right it's so hard to find time these days to watch those long informative videos though I do try. These shorter ones are wonderful. Continue the good work

[IranTalk]

Excellent work, Cy! Keep it up. It's always a pleasure watching your videos.

[ruthnovena]

Thank you for this summary.of known facts. .

[clarenceonyekwere]

Great work. This is an interesting new format, all the best.

[johnssmith]

Can you do a video on the relationship between civilizations South of the Black Sea and the ones on the West and North of the Black Sea .

[John_O_Connor]

I will visit Harappa very soon.
Pakistan Zindabad ❤🇵🇰

[TheRedneckPreppy]

Bah, I knew all of this already -- I watched this dude's video recently... :-)

[Pranav-vbho]

Is it true that Harappan civilization was based more on the Saraswati River (Ghaggar-Hakra) than the Indus River? The expanse of the civilization with major cities (like Rakhigarhi, and Kalibangan) are far from the Indus river and are situated on the banks of ancient river Saraswati. What is the consensus on that?

[artlover]

Lord Krishna (blue coloured hindu god) was a historic person, who was a part of harappan civilization. His city(dwaraka) submerged after his death, and dwarka remains were found underwater, and all the remains suggested that it was a part of harappan civilization. And interestingly, the location of the remains were exactly like what was told in hindu sacred texts. The harappan civilization was mainly concentrated on the banks of the historic(dried) river saraswathi.

[Petal-Lavelle]

Wow! These people were incredible. I wonder if they were maybe trading all their beautiful goods for wood? They seemed to perfectly able and in a fertile land to grow their own food. If the wood supply dried up, then no more fuel for the kilns.

[Iiieevvueúiie]

The great Bath at mohan ja daro can be seen replicated in most temple complexes of TamilNadu south India.