1. Large Mounded Cities
   1. Harappa
   2. Mohenjo-Daro
   3. Properties
      1. grid-like street arrangement
      2. mud-brick and stone architecture
      3. water management
         1. Potable
            1. wells
            2. reservoirs
            3. bathrooms
            4. ritual bathing
            5. bathing platforms
         2. Non-Potable
            1. sewers
            2. drainage
            3. trash jars
      4. courtyards
      5. homes
         1. 1 or 2 stories
         2. doorways
         3. all have restrooms
   4. Facts
      1. These cities have 70 individual layers of occupation
      2. they had "made" land foundation before anyone
         1. wouldn't this be dangerous in earthquake prone region?
2. Known For
   1. long distance trade
   2. green stone beads
   3. glass-like faience
   4. steatites
   5. bangles
   6. Stamp Seals
      1. Topic
      2. Stamp seals show the imagination
         1. 3 headed animals
         2. "composite" animals
         3. seals are found and define the indus valley's region
3. Writing Language
   1. Indus Valley script is undecifered
   2. weights
   3. measures
      1. this implies that there may have been a tax system
4. Mysteries
   1. what kind of socio-political organization did they have?
   2. where are the ruling elite?
      1. syndicalism?
   3. the figures of the time do not denote elite explicitly
      1. Really no portraits
      2. many grave goods
         1. not significant to status
         2. everyone is buried with the same thing
      3. Priest-King
         1. Topic
         2. clearly his cloak is Brahman in origin
   4. What is the nature of Indus Valley Religion?
      1. known
         1. ritual purity and bathing
         2. bulls, unicorns, and elephants are sig. in icons
      2. unknown
         1. headdresses and horned humans
         2. wrestling cats? tigers?
            1. identical to mesopotamian leader-kills-animal-is-god art
         3. dieties?
5. Decline
   1. Aryan Invasion?
      1. No
   2. Disease? Perhaps
6. Parallels
   1. Ritual Bathing
   2. Ritual Burning
   3. Head Ornaments
   4. Importance of Bulls & Elephants
   5. Possibly a diety
   6. standard weights