Transcript Indus River Valley Civilization

Harappa
Civilization
Indus River Valley Civilization
6000 BCE – Nomadic herding
people.
5000BCE – More rainfall ~
more food ~ bigger population
Cotton
Began domesticating
sheep, goats, cows & water
buffalo
Began planting crops
Terraced Farm Fields
The Himalayas
Ancient model of an ox cart
A modern ox cart that looks very similar
to the ancient model
4000 BCE – trading with distant
areas (shells & beads)
2600 BCE – More rainfall ~
civilization as big as
Mesopotamia & Egypt
2300 BCE – trading with
Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa 2
largest cities – over 40,000
each.
Made with standardized,
baked bricks (long-lasting)
Sewer system underground
Heated bathing pools
Arithmetic system with
decimals
Written language
(undeciphered as yet)
Mohenjo-Daro – part of the city
Can you see the
relationship between
these two images?
Earliest public bath – Mohenjo-Daro
Private bath
with drain to
sewer system,
Mohenjo-Daro
Street in
MohenjoDaro
Public Well in Mohenjo-Daro
Working platforms
Civilization disappeared
between 1800 and 1700 BCE
Possibly due to shift in
Indus River course
Possibly people downriver
dammed it causing ruinous
flooding upriver
Possible decline in rainfall
Rainfall increased again in
1500 BCE ~ Groups of
pastoral people called Aryans
came through Khyber Pass to
live on the Indus plains
Warriors with chariots
Indo-European – their
language was related to
most European languages
Modern Harappa