THE CIVILIZATION OF

THE INDUS VALLEY

OBJECTIVE What they harvested and domesticated.

Also, how people once lived there. Finally, how long the Indus lasted.

HARAPPA’S NAME Archaeologists have no way of knowing

what people in the early ages along the Indus Valley called themselves. So the people called them the Harappa civilization now.

The Harappa’s got their name from after the archeological site of Harappa in Pakistan.

ANCIENT CITIES One year after the city of Harappa was

uncovered, people near Harappa found a city almost exactly like it.

The found the city was found about 400 miles south of Harappa.

MOHENJO-DARO The city of Mohenjo-Daro was not a very

small city , and it was a fort. They believed that 40,000 people once

lived in in Mohenjo-Daro.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE HARAPPA The people that lived in the Harappa

civilization lasted from about 2500 B.C. to about 1600 B.C.

The Harappa vanished from history.

FARMING IN THE INDUS VALLEY The people in the Indus Valley

domesticated animal, and harvested various crops such as cotton, peas, barley, and sesame.

To grow their crop the farmers got help from the 6 inches of rain they got a year.

HOW THE CITIES WERE MADE The cities that were in the Indus Valley

civilization were well organized and solidly built of brick and stone.

The settlements covered over 1.25 kilometers.

WHERE THEIR NAME CAME FROM The city that was described in our social

studies book is called Harappa. The people who lived their named the

ruins after an ancient Indian god.

WHERE THEY GOT THEIR GRAINS The building that was next to the Citadel

was a giant warehouse with grains in it. The people think that from the size of

the warehouse the farmers around the Mohenjo-Daro must have been very successful at growing wheat and barley.

MOHENJO-DARO STREETS AND HOUSES Mohenjo-Daro had a lot of houses. In

fact they had more than one hundred sturdy brick houses.

Also, they had a lot of interesting streets.

VOCABULARY Citadel- a walled fort that protects a

city Harappa- a city of the ancient Harappan

civilization, c. 2500- 1600 B.C., located in the Indus valley of South Asia

Mohenjo-Daro- a city of the ancient Harappa civilization, located in the Indus Valley

SUMMARY Archaeologists have no way of knowing of

what the Harappa called themselves. People near Harappa people found a city almost exactly like it. Also, Mohenjo-Daro was a fort and they believed that 40,000 people lived there. Next, people in the Indus Valley domesticated animals and harvested crops. The building that was next to the Citadel was a giant warehouse full of grains In Mohenjo-Daro they had more than one hundred houses.

RECOURSES Social Studies Book http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/indus/hom

e-set.htm http://

www.sscnent.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Ancient/Indus2.html