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    Zjann Henry T. Cuajotor 8-Kamia

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    The Indus River Valley civilization was discovered in 1856 when British railroad engineers uncovered ancient bricks while laying train tracks in present-day Pakistan. Thousands of clay tablets from the civilization indicate it developed one of the earliest known writing systems, even older than Sumerian writing, though it remains undeciphered. The Indus River civilization flourished for about 1500 years beginning around 3000 BCE before declining, centered around the major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which were expertly designed and featured infrastructure like sewers well ahead of their time.

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    The Indus River Valley civilization was discovered in 1856 when British railroad engineers uncovered ancient bricks while laying train tracks in present-day Pakistan. Thousands of clay tablets from the civilization indicate it developed one of the earliest known writing systems, even older than Sumerian writing, though it remains undeciphered. The Indus River civilization flourished for about 1500 years beginning around 3000 BCE before declining, centered around the major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which were expertly designed and featured infrastructure like sewers well ahead of their time.

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    The Indus River Valley civilization was discovered in 1856 when British railroad engineers uncovered ancient bricks while laying train tracks in present-day Pakistan. Thousands of clay tablets from the civilization indicate it developed one of the earliest known writing systems, even older than Sumerian writing, though it remains undeciphered. The Indus River civilization flourished for about 1500 years beginning around 3000 BCE before declining, centered around the major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which were expertly designed and featured infrastructure like sewers well ahead of their time.

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    The Indus River Valley civilization was discovered in 1856 when British railroad engineers uncovered ancient bricks while laying train tracks in present-day Pakistan. Thousands of clay tablets from the civilization indicate it developed one of the earliest known writing systems, even older than Sumerian writing, though it remains undeciphered. The Indus River civilization flourished for about 1500 years beginning around 3000 BCE before declining, centered around the major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which were expertly designed and featured infrastructure like sewers well ahead of their time.

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    INDUS RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATION

    So first off, In 1856, a group of British railroad engineers uncovered an ancient and

    advanced civilization. The engineers were laying tracks through the Indus River Valley

    in present-day Pakistan. They searched the area for stone to make ballast. Ballast is

    crushed rock placed around railroad tracks to drain water from the path of the train. The

    engineers found bricks that seemed very old but were formed exactly alike. The local

    people told the engineers of the ruins of an ancient city made of the same bricks. The

    engineers soon realized that the bricks were part of one of the earliest advanced

    civilizations in history.

    One of the significance of this parts is that thousands of clay tablets indicate that

    the people of the Indus River Valley developed a writing system that may be even older

    than Sumerian writing. Archaeologists have not yet deciphered the writing of the

    Indus River Valley civilization, so their form of government, their religious beliefs, and

    the social structure of their society remain a mystery. The Indus River civilization

    developed about 3000BCE and flourished for about 1500 years before mysteriously

    going into a period of decline. We don’t know what those ancient people called the

    cities they lived in, but we now refer to the two largest as Harappa, after a nearby

    village, and Mohenjo-Daro, a local term that means “hill of the dead." Harappa and

    Mohenjo-Daro were expertly planned cities built with a grid pattern of wide, straight

    streets. Thick walls surrounded the cities. Many people lived in sturdy brick houses

    that had as many as three floors. Some houses had bathrooms and toilets that connected

    to the world’s first sewer system. An irrigation system of canals provided a reliable
    source of water for growing wheat and barley.

    As said here, we can say that the Indus River Valley Civilizations, specifically the
    cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, were quite advanced of it’s time.

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