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    The document provides information on the Ancient Greek civilization and the Indus Valley civilization. It notes that Ancient Greek civilization began around 1400 BC and ended around 337 BC with the rise of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by poleis, or city-states, with Athens as the capital. Citizens had rights to vote and choose their government. The modern concepts of politics, democracy, and citizen originated from Ancient Greece. The document also summarizes key aspects of the Indus Valley civilization, including its advanced urban planning, mixed population, and agricultural and dietary practices. It notes the civilization began declining around 1800 BCE as writing disappeared and cities were abandoned.

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    The document provides information on the Ancient Greek civilization and the Indus Valley civilization. It notes that Ancient Greek civilization began around 1400 BC and ended around 337 BC with the rise of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by poleis, or city-states, with Athens as the capital. Citizens had rights to vote and choose their government. The modern concepts of politics, democracy, and citizen originated from Ancient Greece. The document also summarizes key aspects of the Indus Valley civilization, including its advanced urban planning, mixed population, and agricultural and dietary practices. It notes the civilization began declining around 1800 BCE as writing disappeared and cities were abandoned.

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    The document provides information on the Ancient Greek civilization and the Indus Valley civilization. It notes that Ancient Greek civilization began around 1400 BC and ended around 337 BC with the rise of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by poleis, or city-states, with Athens as the capital. Citizens had rights to vote and choose their government. The modern concepts of politics, democracy, and citizen originated from Ancient Greece. The document also summarizes key aspects of the Indus Valley civilization, including its advanced urban planning, mixed population, and agricultural and dietary practices. It notes the civilization began declining around 1800 BCE as writing disappeared and cities were abandoned.

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    Greek Civilization:

    Ancient Greek Civilization started around 1400BC and ended around 337BC with the rise of the Roman empire. The
    older name for the Greece was Yunan and its capital was Athens. The feature of Ancient Greece was Poleis, a city-
    state. It was the defining feature of the Greek political rule.

    Before living in Poleis, during "Greek Dark Ages", people used to live scattered throughout Greece in small farming
    villages. When the population of these villages grew, a sense of an organization started to evolve. They built a
    marketplace and a community place which led to the formation of a government and some sort of constitution (a set
    of laws). These set of laws helped to establish cities (Poleis) where the citizens had the right to vote and choose their
    government and the government would collect taxes and raise an army. The modern democracy is said to be
    practiced in Greece at that time and the words like politics, democracy and citizen have the Greek origin. Zeus was
    the gods of god for Greek people and they also believed that each Poleis was protected by particular god or
    goddesses, to whom they show a great deal of respect.

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    Indus Valley Civilization:


    Introduction:
    For a long time it was believed that Indians are stay at home people and our civilization was only of recent origin. But
    the excavation at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which led to the discovery of Indus Valley civilization, has set all these
    doubts at naught
    It has now been established beyond all doubts that India possessed one of the advanced civilisation at a time when the
    English people were still living in the jungle age. This unique and important civilisation of the pre-historic times in
    India was for the first time discovered by Daya Ram Sahni and R.D. Banerjee in 1921 and 1922.
    Race of Indus Civilization:
    There has been much controversy amongst the historians regarding the race to which the people of Indus Valley
    civilization belonged. Different scholars have tried to speculate, mainly on the basis of human skeletons and skulls
    found in the ruins, about their race.
    While some scholars are of the opinion that they were Aryans. This point is not acceptable to Sir John Marshall.
    Marshall holds that this civilization was quite different from the earlier civilization and that it was quite different from
    that of the Aryans
    Town Planning and Architecture of Indus Valley Civilization:
    All the cities of the Indus Valley civilization such as Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Chanhuduro, etc., display the
    remarkable skill of the Indus valley civilization in town planning and sanitation.
    Of a these Mohenjo-Daro is better preserved and its excavation has revealed the points that the successive cities were
    built according In tin plan.
    Social Life of the People of Indus Valley Civilization:
    It has already been observed that the people of Mohenjo-Daro were of cosmopolitan character. Evidently these people
    were attracted by the fertility and productivity of the area and came from different parts of Asia.
    Food and Drinks:
    The people of the Indus Valley were both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. They cultivated wheat, bailey rice and bred
    cattle sheep, fish and poultry for food. They also used fish as food. They were also in the habit of taking fruits and
    vegetables and date was the most favorite fruit of the people.

    Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization:

    By 1800 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization saw the beginning of their decline: Writing started to disappear,
    standardized weights and measures used for trade and taxation purposes fell out of use, the connection with the Near
    East was interrupted, and some cities were gradually abandoned

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