Question

Discuss the contribution of the urban revolution during the bronze age

Answer 1

During the bronze Age, an urban revolution also took place. Sumer and Akkad were two great urban civilization of this age. Towns became centers of an number of activities. Here temples were constructed with the labour of hundred of workers who had to be supervised and directed. To do this an architectural plan had to be drawn in advance. the impressive temples thus constructed also needed to be an administered. As worship was so highly institutionalized here it was natural that a specialized class of priests should also emerge.These priests were the first carriers of the literary tradition and hence, quite predictably, literary record generally portray the perspective of the priestly class.

The disparity between the rich and the poor grew at an alarming rate from this time on. Extortion, maltreatment, slavery and all kinds of exploitation were practiced by the rich upon the poor. The urban revolution also brought about a stupendous increase in knowledge. Geometry,arithmetic,astronomy ,medicine and theology developed at an impressive pace. The solar calendar was developed in the Nile Valley. Mohenjodaro and Harappa which were urban civilization of later Bronze Age also shared the characteristics of this revolution and knowledge with the other Bronze Age civilization

Answer 2

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the urban culture of bronze age found in Harappa was a marvellous discovery that push back the history of India .the Harappan people produced a host of crop and we're the earliest to produce cotton .craft specialisation and tade with distance part of Asia and is also indicative of an urban culture . civilization us characterized by the density of population association between economic and social process ,trade and commerce etc .


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