what are similarities between autobiography of harrapan civilization and todays
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To know where we are going, it is useful to know where we came from. Harappan civilisation is amongst the first major urban civilisation that stretched over an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (the size of a modest sized modern country). It was highly standardised architecture, art and utilitarian items. It traded over an even larger area, getting raw material and exporting (to region where its standardisation rules did not apply) finished products, traders and some of its habits to different regions. It post-dated the great cultures of Mesopotamia and was contemporaneous to Sumerian cultures. However, it received a lot of ideas also from Central Asia and in many ways, it collected the finest of ideas and technologies. In that sense it is relevant and important.
The fact that it built not grand structures (but its cities like Harappa were built on artificial mounts) and had no grandiose armies etc. made a lot of archaeologist consider it ‘boring’ and only recently Science ran a series of articles about the culture calling it ‘not boring anymore’. Hence Harappa was probably a very significant aspect of the great early cultures of South and Central Asia and in many way laid out the habits, attitudes, responses, and standards that have become ingrained in us today. Unfortunately Harappa has not attracted enough of the kind of scholarship that say, Central Asia has, for a variety of reasons. We therefore have only the most peripheral understanding of one of the important parts of cultures that extended from the Levant to Bramhaputra and the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and Turkey. So this culture must have played a very significant role in setting up the standards on which later cultures and civilisations were built upon. But we seriously lack an understanding of this aspects of foundation of the human race.
To know where we are going, it is useful to know where we came from. Harappan civilisation is amongst the first major urban civilisation that stretched over an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (the size of a modest sized modern country). It was highly standardised architecture, art and utilitarian items. It traded over an even larger area, getting raw material and exporting (to region where its standardisation rules did not apply) finished products, traders and some of its habits to different regions. It post-dated the great cultures of Mesopotamia and was contemporaneous to Sumerian cultures. However, it received a lot of ideas also from Central Asia and in many ways, it collected the finest of ideas and technologies. In that sense it is relevant and important.
The fact that it built not grand structures (but its cities like Harappa were built on artificial mounts) and had no grandiose armies etc. made a lot of archaeologist consider it ‘boring’ and only recently Science ran a series of articles about the culture calling it ‘not boring anymore’. Hence Harappa was probably a very significant aspect of the great early cultures of South and Central Asia and in many way laid out the habits, attitudes, responses, and standards that have become ingrained in us today. Unfortunately Harappa has not attracted enough of the kind of scholarship that say, Central Asia has, for a variety of reasons. We therefore have only the most peripheral understanding of one of the important parts of cultures that extended from the Levant to Bramhaputra and the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and Turkey. So this culture must have played a very significant role in setting up the standards on which later cultures and civilisations were built upon. But we seriously lack an understanding of this aspects of foundation of the human race.
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