Indus Valley and Europe

Question 1

Period of time with using seals as a writing system, evidence is very scarce, distinctive pottery style

Answer 1

Early Harrapan

Question 2

Defined by the appearance of large urban cities, little evidence of regional unification

Answer 2

Mature Harrapan

Question 3

Period of slow gradual decline, suggestion that the invading aryans from central Asia may have contributed

Answer 3

Late Harrapan

Question 4

What evidence of royalty does the Indus Valley have?

Answer 4

Little to none, grave goods show social lack of social stratification

Question 5

Large stone monuments in Europe

Answer 5

Megaliths

Question 6

What are megaliths used for?

Answer 6

Ritual areas, burials, monuments

Question 7

Erected stones put straight up in the air

Answer 7

Menhir

Question 8

What can ötzi tell us about Neolithic Europe?

Answer 8

Diet, violence, use of copper, tattooing practices

Question 9

Centered on Crete, controlled trade in much of eastern Aegean/ Mediterranean

Answer 9

Minoans

Question 10

Took over control of Minoans, more militaristic, beginning of Greek Pantheon

Answer 10

Mycenaeans

Question 11

How did the Bronze Age collapse?

Answer 11

Possible invasion, decline of city-state power