Chapter 2 Documents

What was interesting to me during this reading were the pictures displayed. It was cool to read about them and the one I liked the most was the statue seven inches tall and found in Mohenjo Daro which depicts one of the elite men. Its a statue that looks like a soldier wearing clothing with a headband and has a beard. The book says that Archeologists have found on grand temple or palaces; no elite burial places filed with great wealth; no images or warfare, conquest, or the sizing of captives; no monuments to celebrate powerful rulers. These absence have left scholars guessing about social and political organization of this civilization. I thought it was interesting the there wasn't much information or evidence left behind from that time ti figure out how people were back then that there was only a slight amount of information left behind that people had to just guess what it meant to those people back then. Kenyer suggested that the great cities were controlled by one ruler. Which I think it funny how someone can just assume how things were then when they don't have that much information to provide a statement like that. He also said it could have be ruled by a small group of elites compared of merchants, landowners, and ritual specialists. He starts off saying he thinks people were controlled by one ruler but then says he thinks it was by a group of elites which I think is just bad information to give to people because I think you can't say you think one thing and then say another. 

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