Difference between Indus valley and Mesopotamia civilization?

Question

difference between Indus valley and Mesopotamia civilization

Answer 1

I agree with TJB about Wikipedia, I use it often.

I am not so sure that Mesopotamia pre-dates the Indus Valley civilization. Both are two of the big four with the Nile Valley and the Yellow River Valley in China making up the quartet.

My assumption is that the four developed much the same as Leibnitz and Newton developed the Calculus, namely, simultaneously.

We must credit Mesopotamia with the invention of writing and it had complex societies, no doubt. I remember reading over 30 ago that toys (one result of advanced society) and two story houses were found at a site along the Indus at a site then recently uncovered.

China, along the Yellow River, had pictographs dated at about 7K to 6K years ago and some of these pictographs bear a strong resemblance to certain Chinese characters, so was this the beginning of writing?

The Indus Valley region  was developing simultaneously; I don’t think we have the evidence to appoint Mesopotamia to be the unchallenged   “cradle of society”.

Wikipedia and other sources abound. Do some research.

Jim D

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Mesopotamia is the older of the two (4th millennium BC in fact considered by most to be the oldest civilization) and was homegrown in area between and surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.  The Indus valley civilization (or Harappan) were later (c. 3300-1700).  Wikipedia will give more details as to the differences in art, religion, culture, language, agricultural practices, etc.