Planned Cities on the Indus

Question 1

What does the uniformity of Indus Valley
cities tell us about their government?

Answer 1

it was organized

Question 2

What evidence exists to show that Indus
Valley civilizations traded with Sumer?

Answer 2

• trade records
• seal stones used as a method of identification

Question 3

Time Period

Answer 3

2500-1700 BC

Question 4

River

Answer 4

The Indus River

Question 5

Cities

Answer 5

harappa, mohenjo-daro

Question 6

Physical Boundaries

Answer 6

mountains

Question 7

significant figures

Answer 7

the unicorn and dancing woman

Question 8

reasons for callapse/end

Answer 8

1. diseases
2. decline in trade with mesopotamia and egypt
3. climate change
4. arrival of nomadic people

Question 9

Harappa

Answer 9

first city to by discovered

Question 10

Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 10

a city
- Had a citadel that had
- a great bath
- a large public swimming pool
- assossiated buildings

Question 11

Indus River

Answer 11

Flows southwest from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea.
-the Indus river system brings a steady source of irrigation water to the Indus Valley that made farming in this otherwise dry region possible

Question 12

Plumbing

Answer 12

• they actually had a plumbing system and toilets in every home

Question 13

sewage

Answer 13

• they had a sewage system

Question 14

Deccan Plateau

Answer 14

• the entire southern peninsula of India south of the Narmada River

Question 15

Ganges River

Answer 15

• along with the Indus River formed the flat and fertile plain of the Indus Valley
• Carry water for irrigation and silt for farming
• drops down from the Himalayas and flows eastward across northern India

Question 16

Himalayan Mountains

Answer 16

• the highest mountains in the world
• border the indus valley

Question 17

Kalibangan

Answer 17

• a major provincial capital of the Indus Valley Civilization
• unique fire altars and “world’s earliest attested ploughed field”

Question 18

cuneiform

Answer 18

used for trading

Question 19

Subcontinent

Answer 19

• A large part of a continent that can be easily distinguished
• separated from the rest of the continent by the highest mountains in the world

Question 20

Monsoon

Answer 20

• winter monsoons
• Monsoons from the middle of june to october

Question 21

Aryans

Answer 21

• iron-tipped spears and war chariots to India
• tribes spread out across the Indus Valley region
• warred against local, non-Aryan people, and they settled in areas that provided them with pasture for their animals

Question 22

city planning

Answer 22

• grid-like system
• elevated, so the flood water doesn’t do damage

Question 23

harappan civilization

Answer 23

• The Indus Valley civilization was sometimes called this because of the large amount of archeological discoveries made on that site
• Harappa was the first city to be found and gave evidence for the Indus Valley Civilization

Question 24

the peninsula

Answer 24

• In the southern part of the subcontinent
• “The center…is a high plateau cut by twisting rivers”
• A dry region

Question 25

The Eastern and Western Ghats

Answer 25

• Low mountain ranges
• frame the peninsula
• “Keep moist air from reaching the plateau”

Question 26

language

Answer 26

impossible to decifer

Question 27

winter monsoons

Answer 27

• “Blow dry air westward across the country”
• From the northeast

Question 28

Monsoons from the middle of june to october

Answer 28

• Blow eastward carrying ocean moisture in great rainclouds
• From the southwest
• The powerful storms create flooding with how much moisture is carried

Question 29

environmental challenges

Answer 29

• Unpredictable flooding
• “The rivers sometimes changed course.
• The cycle of wet and dry seasons brought by the monsoon winds was unpredictable.”
  - too little rain
  - plants withered and people starved
  - too much rain
  - floods swept entire villages away

Question 30

citadel

Answer 30

• served as a temple
• Protection for the royal family