In addition, the layout of the cities suggests an upper class residing near the citadels and managing the imports and exports. The Indus Valley possesses similar characteristics of both flourishing and powerful civilizations from Mesopotamia and Egypt. The enigma that is the Indus Valley Civilization is that although there is no writing system or burials with burial goods to define a class-structure, the Indus Valley was a maverick. Lawler (2008) ascertains that archaeologists found that the Indus surpassed both Mesopotamia and Egypt not only in land or population size, but also in technology and engineering, and “was an aggressive player during humanity’s first flirtation with globalization”(1276). The perplexity of this long forgotten civilization remains but the discoveries to date clearly exemplify a functioning, prosperous and ingenious experiment in
In addition, the layout of the cities suggests an upper class residing near the citadels and managing the imports and exports. The Indus Valley possesses similar characteristics of both flourishing and powerful civilizations from Mesopotamia and Egypt. The enigma that is the Indus Valley Civilization is that although there is no writing system or burials with burial goods to define a class-structure, the Indus Valley was a maverick. Lawler (2008) ascertains that archaeologists found that the Indus surpassed both Mesopotamia and Egypt not only in land or population size, but also in technology and engineering, and “was an aggressive player during humanity’s first flirtation with globalization”(1276). The perplexity of this long forgotten civilization remains but the discoveries to date clearly exemplify a functioning, prosperous and ingenious experiment in