Intro to Indus Civilization Indus Cities Background Planning and Standardization

1. Intro to Indus Civilization • Indus Cities • Background • Planning and Standardization • Water and Drainage • Citadels • Standardized Weights/Measures • Trade • Unanswered Questions • Undeciphered writing system • Government • Religion • Decline • Indian Geography and Pattern of Indian History • Pattern Playing Out

2. Intro to Indus Civ • Discovery • Hydraulic Civ • Geography

3. Artist’s conception of a street scene in Mohenjo Daro & one of its excavated streets now

4. Reconstruction of “Lower Town” to East of Citadel in Mohenjo-Daro Planning and Standardization -Grid System for Streets -Blocks of Standard Size

5. Mohenjo Daro Planning and Standardization -Grid System for Streets -Blocks of Standard Size -Wells systematically distributed

6. A private well (l.) & public well (r.) from Harappa

7. Mohenjo Daro Planning and Standardization -Grid System for Streets -Blocks of Standard Size -Wells systematically distributed -Two standardized sizes of bricks

8. Mohenjo Daro Planning and Standardization -Grid System for Streets -Blocks of Standard Size -Wells systematically distributed -Two standardized sizes of bricks -Houses

9. Planning and Standardization -Grid System for Streets -Blocks of Standard Size -Wells systematically distributed -Two standardized sizes of bricks -Houses

10. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems FC12 THE INDUS RIVER CIVILIZATION & PATTERN OF INDIAN HISTORY A drainage channel from a private home in Mohenjo Daro

11. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems

12. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System An artist’s impression of how the drainage system at Mohenjo Daro worked

13. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System -Toilets

14. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System An artist’s impression of how the drainage system at Mohenjo Daro worked

15. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System -Toilets

16. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System -Toilets

17. Drainage Systems -Irrigation for Agriculture -Wells -Private Drainage Systems -Private Bathing System -Toilets -Public Baths Excavated ruins of the great bath of Mohenjo Daro

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19. Trade • Contact with Mesop and China • Seals • Cities as Trade Centers • Provided Wealth for Societies Port of Lothal

20. FC12 THE INDUS RIVER CIVILIZATION & PATTERN OF INDIAN HISTORY • Brief Intro to Indus Civ • Cities • Background • II. Planning and Standardization • III. Drainage Systems • IV. Fortresses • Std’ized Weights and Measures • Trade • Unanswered Questions • Language

21. Religion • Assembly Halls? • Ritual Baths? • Speculation: • Powerful Priestly Class • Gods Male god in yogic position

22. Religion • Assembly Halls? • Ritual Baths? • Speculation: • Powerful Priestly Class • Gods • Goddesses Goddess Figurines

23. Brief Intro to Indus Civ • Cities • Background • II. Planning and Standardization • III. Drainage Systems • IV. Fortresses • Std’ized Weights and Measures • Trade • Unanswered Questions • Language • Government • Religion • Decline • The “What” FC12 THE INDUS RIVER CIVILIZATION & PATTERN OF INDIAN HISTORY • What Happened? • Background • Densely Populated by 3000 • Flourishing by 2600 • Cities Abandoned by 1700-1500 • Evidence • Abandoned town planning • Long distance trade declined. We stop hearing about them from • Indus script no longer employed • Standardized weights gone • Standardized mud bricks gone