Question

TIL Think tank
1. Explain why most of the Harappan cities developed on river banks. How were
rivers important?
2. How do you think our knowledge of the Harappan Civilization had been ennched
if the Harappan script had been deciphered?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

1) Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and made the land fertile for growing crops. Moreover, goods and people could be transported easily, and the people in these civilizations could fish and hunt the animals that came to drink water.

2) The main hurdles in the decipherment of the Indus script include:

1. extreme brevity of the Indus texts; average length of the Indus texts is ~5 signs and the longest Indus text in a single line consists of just 14 signs,

2. absence of information on their context and usage,

3. absence of bilingual or multilingual texts,

4. lack of knowledge about their language(s),

5. apparent discontinuity in the cultural traditions at the decline of the Indus Valley civilization.

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