Indus valley civilization
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On the left is a seal from the Indus valley civilization, and on the right is a modern clay impression made from it.
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What suggests that the religion of the Indus valley civilization may have survived for many centuries in a different form?
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We know there was trade between the Indus valley civilization and that of Mesopotamia.
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Historians’ inability to read the writing of the Indus valley civilization means that we know less about this culture than we do about Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
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There is no consensus answer, though the Indus valley civilization may have developed as a series of small republic-like states, dominated by religious specialists such as priests presiding over an intensely hierarchical class system.
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