But while Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient China gloried in warfare, it seems absent from the Indus valley. The civilisation of the Indus valley is the most enigmatic of the four great early civilisations. And all this? Well, it’ll be history.Or has it? One mysterious, ancient society might give the lie to that. The river here dried up and we were forced to move away. But, needless to say, it didn’t last forever. Our way of life is still a bit of mystery in your time. Ah, shucks, don’t mention it! Wow, thanks, Mum. Let’s try again – second right, first left. So, yikes! Now, which way was I supposed to be going again? Without our seals, Mum wouldn’t be able to sell our grain. Would you ever buy a pair of trainers without the right logo? They tell the buyer who made the goods, so they’re a bit like logos. No-one from your time has figured out what it says yet. But people don’t like to buy anything without one of these seals.ĭon’t worry if you can’t read it. It’s just like swapping things, but once the swap is made, it’s made for good. In fact, all our products are so great that people come from miles away just to buy them, but money hasn’t been invented yet - we just trade things instead. We’re actually one of the first people in the world to have those.Ĭheck this out! We’re really big gamers in the Indus Valley, and this one is so addictive that I bet you’ll still be playing it in your time.Īt last the market – I love it here. So as you know, our houses have all the mod cons, including personal wells and flushing toilets. They’re very durable, lasting for thousands of years, which is how your historians will find out about us. We don’t have stones around here so, just like you, we use bricks, all baked from clay. You’d call it a ‘high street’ – we were using the same idea 4,500 years before you. And down the middle is a big, wide, straight street, just wide enough, in fact, for two elephants to pass side-by-side. We built some of the first planned cities ever, so the sewers, the roads and the buildings all fit together in a grid system. Some cities are higgledy-piggledy – not ours. It brings all sorts of benefits, like farming, irrigation and travel, but it can be a bit of a bad neighbour and occasionally tries to wash us away. We’re called Indus Valley people because we live – surprise, surprise – in the valley river. Never mind the village – you’re getting the city tour instead.ĭon’t be intimidated by the walls – they’re not to keep invaders out, they’re to keep water out. Hang on! But she won’t sell anything without these! These are Mum’s seals – I’ll explain later, but they’re really important. So today Mum has made a special trip to sell our grain in the big city. We’re farmers, by the way, and like all Indus people, we survive from what we can sell. I can’t wait to show you around our village. You can’t miss us – we’re about four times the size of Britain! Aha, you made it! Hi, I’m Suri. Head south-east over Europe and you’ll see us, just before India. I’d like to show you what it’s like to live in the ancient Indus Valley, one of the earliest civilisations, so we’re a long way back in time.īack before the Vikings… before the Romans and keep going back, back, back until Stonehenge is being built 4,500 years ago. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.
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