- most people were farmers who grew wheat, barley, melons and dates
- first to turn cotton into cloth
- traded cloth, grain, copper, pearls and ivory combs
- some ships traveled to Sumer
- archeologists believe that the Indus Valley may have gotten their form of writing from Sumerians
- no similarity between Indus and Sumerian writing

- archeologists predict the Indus people were polytheistic from statues and images
- worshipped the goddess of creation saw the buffalo and bull as sacred

Economy in the Indus Civilization

Religious Beliefs of the Indus Civilization