Indus valley civilization

1. Indus Valley
Civilization
Tayebul Aftab

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

10. Architecture
▪ Drainage system

11. Communal Granary

12. Theocracy

13. Local Gods’ Monument

14. Trade (Ornaments)

15. Writing

16. Collaps
▪ Landslides
▪ Violent floods
▪ Victims to Malaria
▪ Indo European Nomads

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