Planned Cities on the Indus
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Planned Cities on the Indus
Chapter 2 section 3
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The Geography of South Asia
• South Asia – modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh is a subcontinent.
• It is separated from the rest of Asia by tall mountains (the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush).
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• Just below the mountains are two large plains that hold the Ganges and Indus rivers.
• The high mountains gave the people safety from invaders.
• Because they lived close to the sea, the people could travel over the water to trade with other people.
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• The people along the Indus River faced many of the same challenges that the people in Mesopotamia did.
• Their river flooded each year and left soil good for farming.
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• But the floods did not occur at the same time each year. Also the river sometimes changed course
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• The region’s weather caused problems, too.
• Each winter, strong winds blew dry air across the area.
• Each spring, the winds brought heavy rains.
• These seasonal winds are called monsoons.
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Civilizations Emerges on the Indus
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• Historians cannot understand the writings of the people who settled in the Indus Valley. So, they have not learned much about these people.
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• They do know that they were farming along the river by about 3200 B.C.
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• They also know that the culture of these people covered an area larger than either Mesopotamia or Egypt.
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• About 2500 B.C., these people also began building their first cities. They were Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal.
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• Dholavira • In Mesopotamia, cities were a jumble of winding streets.
Ur
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• In the Indus Valley, however, the builders carefully planned their cities.
• They made a grid (or blueprint) of streets.
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Harrapa
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Mohenjo-daro
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Dholavira
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Dholavira
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Mohenjo-Daro
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Some of the cities in the Indus Valley also had a system for carrying water and sewage.
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• They built an area called the citadel that was easy to defend. A citadel is a fort used to protect the city. All the important buildings were next to it.
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• The civilization of the Indus was peaceful. Because the houses were mostly alike, scholars think that the Indus culture did not have big differences in social classes.
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• Houses were one or two stories high, made of baked brick, with flat roofs, and were just about identical.
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• Each was built around a courtyard, with windows overlooking the courtyard. The outside walls had no windows. Each home had its own private drinking well and its own private bathroom.
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• Clay pipes led from the bathrooms to sewers located under the streets. These sewers drained into nearby rivers and streams. This was a very advanced civilization!
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Mohenjo-daro bath
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• Few weapons have been found at the sites of these cities. This indicates that warfare was not common.
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• These early people left an important mark on the region.• Some religious objects include symbols that became part of the
later Indian culture.
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• Historians also think that the people of Indus Valley traded with the people of Mesopotamia.