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Along with Egypt and Sumer, the third major early Bronze Age civilization was the Indus Valley civilization, which flourished from 2600 B.C. to 900 B.C. In geographic size, the Indus Valley civilization was the largest ancient urban civilization, bigger than pharaonic Egypt. ████████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ███ █████████████ ██████ ██ █████████ █████ █████ ███████████ ██████ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ████████████ ███ ████████████ ██████ ███

Intro to Topic · Indus Valley civilization

Important Bronze Age civilization. Details about where, when, what.

Concession / Main Point · Had been considered uninteresting but new evidence shows otherwise

Indus Valley civilization was "without parallel." This is likely the main point and the rest of the passage will try to support this position.

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Premise · Unique urban infrastructure; interesting social, political, military structures

Masters of urban planning, built brick cities, had urban sewer system, little class distinction, democratic government, no military.

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Premise · Innovative agriculture and masters of trade

First to cultivate rice and cotton, top traders with standardized weights.

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Phenomenon · Why did the civilization decline?

Popular Hypothesis · Massacred by invaders

Wheeler's hypothesis is that Indo-Aryan invaders destroyed them but there is little written or archaeological evidence.

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Counter Evidence · Indo-Aryans were not present at decline

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Evidence · Resurgence in the south

Indus Valley civilization moved south?

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Author’s Hypothesis · Catastrophic environmental causes for decline and relocation

Severe drought or massive earthquake.

Passage Style

Critique or debate

Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

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Not stated. Although the author theorizes that the Indus Valley people might have relocated due to disaster, this doesn’t constitute being “generally nomadic.”

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Stated in P1.

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