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Life in Mohenjo-Daro

Life in Mohenjo-Daro. Objective. Learn where Mohenjo-Daro is and what life was like there. Mohenjo-Daro was built in about 3000 B.C. When?. Mohenjo-Daro was discovered in 1992 By R.D. Banerji. Mohenjo-Daro is in southern Asia. Where?. The area Mohenjo-Daro

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Life in Mohenjo-Daro

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  1. Life in Mohenjo-Daro

  2. Objective • Learn where Mohenjo-Daro is and what life was like there.

  3. Mohenjo-Daro was built in about 3000 B.C. When? Mohenjo-Daro was discovered in 1992 By R.D. Banerji.

  4. Mohenjo-Daro is in southern Asia. Where? The area Mohenjo-Daro is in is also called the Indian subcontinent.

  5. How did they live • Each home in Mohenjo-Daro had a bathing and drainage system. • The homes in Mohenjo-Daro were made out of equal sized bricks.

  6. What did they have • They had a pool size bath tub. • They also had to some toys. The toys were small stone tablets. The Newcomers had to migrated across the icy passes of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

  7. What did they dress in • They dressed in robes. • The girls dressed in gold necklace.

  8. Religion • The people of Mohenjo-Daro practiced Buddhism. • The people of Harappa cities also practiced Buddhism.

  9. Working in Mohenjo-Daro • Harappan builders and engineers were very skilled • The skilled workers carved beautiful figures from small squares of stone • Potters made jar, cooking bowls, and other containers • Metalworkers made everything from copper fish hooks to razors. They also made they also made fine statues of cast sand bronze.

  10. Mohenjo-Daro trade • The people of Mohenjo-Daro traded with other people of the Indus Valley • Standardized weights and scales are evidence found in the city of Mohenjo-Daro are evidence that they had an organized trading system

  11. Newcomers • Around 1600 B.C Mohenjo-Daro was totally abandoned • People think it might have been because of an earthquake or massive Floods • The Newcomers had to migrated across the icy passes of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

  12. Rescores • 6th grade social studies book • WWW.Nationalgeographic.com • WWW.askkids.com • WWW.kids.yahoo.com

  13. Summary In summary Mohenjo-Daro was a large and powerful city in ancient India in around 3000 b.c. The people were wealthy and worked hard. The people practiced Buddhism. Finally Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned in about 1600bc.

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