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Indus Civilization . By: Kelly Goggin , Emily Hall, Vicki Basso, Isabel Cieri & Nora Grady. Overview. The Indus civilization settled in the Indian subcontinent. The Indus people built India’s first cities around 2,500 B.C.
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Indus Civilization By: Kelly Goggin, Emily Hall, Vicki Basso, Isabel Cieri & Nora Grady
Overview • The Indus civilization settled in the Indian subcontinent. • The Indus people built India’s first cities around 2,500 B.C. • The Indus Valley civilization is sometimes called the Harappan civilization. • The Indus group astounds us because of our similar ways of life, 4,500 years later.
Earliest Arrivals • Recently, archaeologists discovered evidence in the highlands of agriculture and domesticated sheep and goats dating all the way back to 7,000 B.C. • Around 3,200 B.C. the Indus people were farming in villages alongside the Indus River.
Planned Cities • The Indus people are known for their remarkable establishments of India’s finest cities. • They began building around 2,500 B.C. • The Indus built streets, brick homes and had private baths. • The largest cities they created were: Kalibangan, Mohemjo-Daro and Harappa.
Planned Cities continued… • The Indus people were extremely aware of their surroundings. They made mud-brick floors to prevent flooding. • They built a brick wall approximately three and a half miles long surrounding the area. Inside the wall was a citadel which protected the Royal Family and served as a temple of worship.
Plumbing • The Indus people faced a predicament: how do they obtain clean water from human waste? • They dumped their waste into “drainage” ditches or took the waste outside of town. • The Indus people had a very modern-looking plumbing system. • The Indus civilization was very advanced, no other civilization had this standard of a system until the 19th and 20th centuries.
Works Cited • http://india.mrdonn.org/indus.html • www. Harappan.com • http://www.crystalinks.com/induscivilization.html • http://202.83.164.27/wps/portal/Mot/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os_hQN68AZ3dnIwML82BTAyNXTz9jE0NfQwNfA_2CbEdFAA2MC_Y!/?PC_7_UFJPCGC20OUQE02ET9FMPJ30O2_WCM_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/MotCL/ministry/highlights/the+basic+history+of+pakistan • http://ccrtindia.gov.in/induscivilisculp.html • http://sljglobal.wikispaces.com/halimahshantel • http://history-world.org/indus_valley.htm