📍The people of the Indus were polytheistic and seemed to have viewed some animals, including the buffalo and the bull, as sacred.
📍Trade was very important to the people of the Indus River Valley civilization. Merchants traveled as far as Sumer to trade!
📍By 1900 B.C., the Indus River Valley civilization began to decline. However, scientists are unsure why the civilization declined.
📍It is believed that Aryan tribes from Central Asia came through the Khyber Pass and conquered the Indus River people.

The Indus River Valley Civilization:

📍About 2600 B.C., the earliest South Asian civilization emerged in the Indus River valley, in present day Pakistan.
📍The civilization flourished for about 700 years.
📍Two main cities:
Harappa & Mohenjodaro
📍Many accomplishments such as grid-patterned roads, temples, granaries (houses made of brick), plumbing systems in houses, sewers, weaving of cloth, and a developed form of writing!