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North Rules

20.05.12

Civilization, I was taught, arose on four great rivers of the world: the Nile, the Huang He (Yellow), the Indus and the Tigris-Euphrates (which become one, 50 miles upstream of the Persian Gulf). Notice anything? They’re all in the northern hemisphere. As a result, our global culture is hemicentric: North rules.

Suppose, instead, that five or 10 thousand years ago a bunch of southern-hemisphere proto-yuppies decided they’d had enough of the nomadic life (all that tedious huntin’ and gatherin’) and settled down by the banks of, say, the Plata (South America) or the Orange (South Africa). They did all the right things — herded goats, raised corn, baked bricks — and thrived. Their settlements multiplied in size and sophistication, and before you knew it, they’d invented maps and sundials and compasses, long before anyone in the hemisphere north of the equator had given such things a thought. How would our world be different today? I think it’s safe to say that:

Source: North Coast Journal

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daily lives of the indus civiization - Bookshelf


The Indus civilization, a contemporary perspective
276 pages 		The Indus civilization, a contemporary perspective

Creator: Gregory L. Possehl | History - 2002
CHAPTER 7 The Indus Script INTRODUCTION Writing is one of the hallmarks of ... some small part of the writing system and used it in their daily lives. ...
Publisher: Altamira Pr
The Indus civilization, supplementary volume to the Cambridge history of India
143 pages 		The Indus civilization, supplementary volume to the Cambridge history of India

Creator: Mortimer Wheeler | Social Science - 1968
Communal life, on a small scale, was in an experimental and adventurous phase. ... THE INDUS CIVILIZATION At present, the nucleus of the Indus civilization ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Ancient Mesopotamia/India
144 pages 		Ancient Mesopotamia/India

Creator: Social Studies School Service | Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003-01-01
SECTION TWO: The Indus Valley Civilization Time frame: 3 class periods (55 minutes ... Group Activity: Wordless Book (posters) about Daily Life in the Indus ...
Publisher: Social Studies
Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization, being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927 Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization, being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927

Creator: John Marshall | History - 1996
With the Indus people fish is a common article of diet, and so, too, are molluscs, turtles, and other aquatic creatures.1 In the lives of the Vedic- Aryans ...
The ancient Indus Valley, new perspectives
441 pages 		The ancient Indus Valley, new perspectives

Creator: Jane McIntosh | History - 2008
Domestic architecture, unusually well known in the Indus civilization, can reveal many aspects of daily life, while the relative paucity and considerable ...
Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc