Indus valley civilization
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The Indus Valley Civilization was located between the Indus and Saraswati rivers in modern-day Pakistan. It developed an advanced, urban society with large cities like Mohenjo Daro and Harappa housing up to 100,000 people each. The cities had sophisticated architecture, including multi-story brick buildings, and infrastructure like drainage systems and a grid layout of wide main streets and narrow alleys. The civilization engaged in extensive local and long-distance trade, though the reason for its eventual decline remains unclear, possibly due to flooding, landslides, or invasions.
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Indus valley civilization
- 2. Location ▪ In between two great streams. 1. Indus 2. Saraswati In Pakistan
- 3. Summary ▪ Founded far later than China, Egypt and Mesopotemia. ▪ Highly advanced, urbanized civilization. ▪ Dense population and numerous fortified farming villages. ▪ Soil erosion and frequent, violent flooding Preplanning. ▪ Flood-control systems and grid-like street. ▪ Agrarian wheat, barley, and cotton. ▪ Trade with cotton, metals, and lapis lazuli. ▪ India at the center of a trade network.
- 4. Two Cities ▪ Mohenjo Daro ▪ Harappa ▪ Large and careully built ▪ Three miles across ▪ Maximum 1,00,000 people ▪ Other small towns and villages
- 5. Mohenjo Daro
- 6. Harappa
- 7. Architecture ▪ Fired Bricks – Walls – Houses – Grannaries
- 8. Architecture ▪ 34 feet wide main thoroughfares ▪ 9 feet wide smaller roads
- 9. Architecture ▪ Buildings were two or even three stories. ▪ Interiors identical
- 11. Communal Granary
- 12. Theocracy
- 15. Writing
- 16. Collaps ▪ Landslides ▪ Violent floods ▪ Victims to Malaria ▪ Indo European Nomads
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