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    The Indus Valley Civilization flourished around 2500 BCE along the Indus River valley in modern-day Pakistan and western India. Two major cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, each covered around 600 hectares and had tens of thousands of residents. The cities had well-planned streets and buildings, centralized drainage systems, and communal baths. Though the cause of its decline is unknown, the Indus Valley Civilization represents one of the earliest urban cultures in South Asia.

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    The Indus Valley Civilization flourished around 2500 BCE along the Indus River valley in modern-day Pakistan and western India. Two major cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, each covered around 600 hectares and had tens of thousands of residents. The cities had well-planned streets and buildings, centralized drainage systems, and communal baths. Though the cause of its decline is unknown, the Indus Valley Civilization represents one of the earliest urban cultures in South Asia.

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    The Indus Valley Civilization flourished around 2500 BCE along the Indus River valley in modern-day Pakistan and western India. Two major cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, each covered around 600 hectares and had tens of thousands of residents. The cities had well-planned streets and buildings, centralized drainage systems, and communal baths. Though the cause of its decline is unknown, the Indus Valley Civilization represents one of the earliest urban cultures in South Asia.

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    Indus Valley Civilization

    The Indus Valley civilization flourished around 2,500 B.C. in the western part of South Asia, in what today is Pakistan and western India. It is often referred to as Harappan Civilization after its first discovered city, Harappa.

    Settlement Location

    1. Harappa and Mohenjodaro 2. Lothal and the Indian Sites 3. Continuation of Harappan Civilization in the Indo Gangetic Valley.

    Mohenjo-daro : aerial view

    Achievements

    1. Street Planning 2. Granary 3. Great Bath 4. Social Organization 5. Relations with Agrarian Hinterland.

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    1. Nature of Trade and Commerce 2. Routes of Trade and Commerce 3. Articles of Trade and Commerce 4. The Ruling Merchant Classes.

    Architecture

    Originating around 2500 B.C.E. the thriving civilizations survived for around 500 years. Both Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, two of the largest among 500 sites, were three miles in circumference with around 40,000 people. To the north is a citadel or raised area. In Mohenjo-Daro, the citadel is built on an architectural Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa platform about 45 feet above the plain. On the summit was a huge communal bath. Next to the large bath was a huge open spacea granary where food was stored from possible floods. Fortified walls mark the southeast corner. The lower city was laid out in a gridiron with the main streets about 45 feet wide.

    Drain

    Private houses, almost every one with its own well, bathing space, and toilet consisting of a brick seat over a drainage area. Brick-lined drains flushed by water carried liquid and solid waste to sumps, where it was carted away, probably to fertilize nearby fields.

    The town plan was regular.


    Even fire-baked bricks were uniform in size and shape. The regularity of plan and construction suggests a government with organization and bureaucratic capacity. No monumental architecture clearly marks the presence of a palace or temple. There is little sign of social stratification in the plan or buildings.

    The Caste System


    Originally based on color: Aryans were wheat-colored and Dravidians were darker skinned. Four Main Varnas or Castes: Priests (brahmins) Warriors and Aristocrats (Kshatriyas)

    Cultivators, artisans, and merchants (vsaishyas)


    Landless peasants and serfs ( shudras) Untouchables (people who performed dirty tasks) added much later

    Decline of Indus Valley Civilization


    1. The Myth of Aryan Invasion. 2. Environmental Sifts 3. New Researches

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