from the Mediterranean, by people using Prehistoric Egyptian-style pottery. (Encyc. Americana) Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. (Encyc. Americana) Inventions, discoveries, introductions The Indus Valley civilisation, at its peak, covered an area of around , an area just over half the size of present-day Pakistan. Its heartland lay in the Indus River in Pakistan, but settlements spread as far as the Makran coast, Balochistan, Afghanistan, eastern Punjab, Kutch and Saurashtra. They included cities like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Kalibangan, Dholavira, ports like Lothal, Sutkagen-dor and Sokhta Koh and numerous villages as well. They used irrigation to farm and constructed cities. The two main cities had sewage systems, bronze, trade tokens (early coins), and hieroglyphs. There were even baths at one of the villages, besides the great baths of brick in each city. Sahure is the earliest known king to make use of a high-seas navy to transport troops over the sea. Cycladic marble figures depict the use of both the musical pipe and the cithara. (Archaeology of the Olympics 1988) Earliest surviving ski is left in a bog at Hoting, Sweden, about this time. (Encyc. Americana) Sumerians use domestic donkeys on war chariots (Standard of Ur), not onagers as early interpreters claimed. (Clutton-Brock) Agriculture at Huaca Prieta includes cotton and calabashes. (Bailey 1973) Statue of Ebih-Il, at Mari References -5 -75