Economy
Indus people farmed for a living. The Indus people grew dates, grapes, melons, wheat, and peas. Indus people traded metal tools, pottery, cotton, lumber, grain, livestock ect. with other rural agricultural communities. Indus peoples currency was trade goods
Customs
Almost all Indus people had arranged marriages, women had to give dowries (gifts) given to the husband to persuade the man to marry them. Indus peoples enjoyed pottery they often crafted sculptors of their gods. Indus peoples central god was called Shiva, but we have little information on their tradition because we have yet to decipher their language.
Maurya Empire
Chandragupta Maurya gained power of the Gages river valley and conquered most of northern India with his army in 321 B.C. From this time to 185 B.C. the Mauryan Dynasty ruled over the first Indian empire. The capital Pataliputra was on of the largest and richest cities at the time. This dynasty was harsh but in the end resulted in peace, prosperity, and the learning of trade adn the spread of Buddhism.
Golden Age
The Indus people went through a golden age from 2600-1900 B.C. The golden age was a time when life seemed perfect. The golden age ended when the Indus stopped trading with Mesopotamia, the city mounds became overcrowded, city drains blocked up and the river fl