INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

FOCUS QUESTION Write a paragraph explaining what the most

important social development of the Paleolithic age was…

The most important social development of the Paleolithic period is …

INDUS CIVILIZATION

This civilization began between 3000BCE & 1500BCE.

Major cities emerged along the Indus and Ganges Rivers.

GEOGRAPHY: To the North were the Himalaya and Hindu-

Kush Mts. The major Rivers were the Indus and

Ganges. The pass through the Mts. was called

Khyber pass. And the seasonal winds that blow cold

dry air in the winter & warm wet rainy periods during spring and summer is called monsoons.

INDUS RIVER

HARAPPA & MOHENJO-DARO Two of the largest cities in the Indian Sub-

continent were Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro. Both Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro had around

35000-40,000 people. They were very well organized cities laid out

in a grid like pattern that ran North, South East and West.

In addition they had running water, clay pipes, two and 3 story homes built with standard sized oven fired bricks.

They had bathrooms, sewer system, garbage disposals, trash men and other city workers.

HARAPPA - PUBLIC WELL

                                                   

         

KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Grid like streets Standard sized oven fired bricks Clay pipes, and clay trade seals Running water Sewage system Garbage disposals & trash workers

WHAT HAPPEN TO THEM? Around 1500 BCE a group known as the

Aryans invaded the Indus Valley Many were killed. Some escaped to the mountains. Many were captured & made slaves of

the Aryan invaders. Invasion by Aryans from Hindu Kush.