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Indus River Valley

Indus River Valley. Standard: Key concept 1.3-Early Societies. Geography. Settle near the Indus River and Ganges River Monsoons lead to flooding. Geography. The Indus River carries a lot of silt and floods twice a year.

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Indus River Valley

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  1. Indus River Valley Standard: Key concept 1.3-Early Societies

  2. Geography • Settle near the Indus River and Ganges River • Monsoons lead to flooding

  3. Geography The Indus River carries a lot of silt and floods twice a year. Access to river water for irrigation allowed farmers in the Indus Valley and related areas to produce two crops a year, despite the region’s sparse rainfall.

  4. Indus River Valley • This civilization is still mysterious. • Although a writing system existed, it has not been translated.

  5. Two cities • Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro • Focus on cities as centers

  6. Planning • Cities were sophisticated and planned. • They had plumbing to carry away waste. • These walls were used to protect against flooding of the Indus

  7. Technology • Had better access to metal than did the Egyptians and Mesopotamians. • Used metal to create everyday items and luxury items. • Had extensive irrigation systems, the potter’s wheel, kiln-baked bricks, sophisticated bronze metallurgy, and a system of writing.

  8. Technology • Metal was used to make tools • Irrigation system

  9. Politics and Planning These cities of the Indus Valley civilization are characterized by a high degree of standardization in city planning, architecture, and even by the size of the bricks. Two possibilities – could have had an authoritarian central government or may have had extensive trade within the region.

  10. Economics • Expansive trading network • The Indus River provided a link to the sea for trade. • Focus on agriculture

  11. Believed to be abandoned by 1900BCE • Natural disasters and ecological changes such as the drying up of the Hakra River, salinization, and erosion probably led to a decline in agricultural production and the collapse of the Indus Valley civilizations. • The way of life of the elite collapsed, but the peasants probably adapted and survived.

  12. Later, the Aryans settled the region through multiple invasions.

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