people in ancient civilizations. The Indus River Valley and Chinese Civilizations are both examples of societies that used their geography to help them as civilizations. These civilizations were able to develop based on the resources they had‚ and were able to become complex civilizations by irrigating floods and devising early plumbing systems. Geography had a dramatic influence on the lives of people in the Indus River Valley. Primarily centered along the Indus and the Punjab region‚ the civilization
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COMPARATIVE ESSAY Egypt and Indus Valley Two of the earliest known civilizations were in Egypt and the Indus Valley. Two similarities between them were that both had strong economic systems and distinct social classes. But one major difference included the significant cultural achievements of Egypt compared to the inferior achievements of the Indus Valley. One similarity between the early Egyptian and Indus Valley civilizations is that they both had strong economic systems. Both societies
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them became agriculturist and started farming and crops this era of that time called Early Food-Processing Phase(ca. 7000–5500 BCE). Lifestyle The people of Indus valley of civilization started to live their life in a civilized way. For this purpose they started to build their houses in rectangular shape with mud and reed. People of Indus valley lived and made their houses near to river and at that they were no not how to deal with calamities so dangers of flood which could wipe off their mud houses
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2013 Social Studies 2nd Semester Outline Indus Valley Civilizations: 2500-1500 BCE Indus River Modern-Day Pakistan Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (Twin capitals) First to cultivate and weave cotton Discovered in 1922 First city planning in history: grid pattern‚ uniform building style‚ rectangular city blocks‚ plumbing Barriers Seals not deciphered Figurines in religion Sacred animals Polytheistic Economy agricultural Trade with Mesopotamia Aryans invade around 1500 BCE‚ superior technology
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HARAPPA Harappa is an ancient city which was part of the Indus Valley Civilization. Indus valley civilization ancient civilization flourished from about 2500 BC to about 1500 BC in the valley of the Indus River and its tributaries‚ in the northwestern portion of the Indian subcontinent.In 1921 archaeologists found this site when spectacular ruins were found in Harappa and Mohen-jo Daro. Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab‚ northeast Pakistan‚ about 20 km west of Sahiwal. The site takes
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once thrived a civilization in the Indus Valley. Located in what ’s now Pakistan and western India‚ it was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. (1) The Indus Valley Civilization‚ as it is called‚ covered an area the size of western Europe. It was the largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ India and China. However‚ of all these civilizations the least is known about the Indus Valley people. This is because the Indus script has not yet been deciphered
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Broad topics addressed in the Foundations time period are: Environmental and periodization issues Early development in agriculture and technology Basic cultural‚ political‚ and social features of early civilizations: Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ Indus Valley‚ Shang China‚ and Meso/South America The rise and fall of classical civilizations: Zhou and Han China‚ India (Gupta Empire)‚ and Mediterranean civilizations (Greece and Rome) Major belief systems‚ including polytheism‚ Hinduism‚ Judaism‚ Confucianism
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موئن جودڑو‚ Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو‚ lit. Mound of the Dead; English pronunciation: /moʊˌhɛn.dʒoʊ ˈdɑː.roʊ/)‚ is an archeological site in the province of Sindh‚ Pakistan. Built around 2600 BCE‚ it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization‚ and one of the world’s earliest major urban settlements‚ contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Crete. Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE‚ and was not rediscovered until 1922. Significant
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Soan Valley and South India are the earliest evidence of humans in India discovered so far. Some of the tools date back to the Paleolithic Age – 400‚000 to 200‚000 years ago‚ other tools date to the Mesolithic Age and the Neolithic Age (8000 BC – 4000 BC). The first organized civilization of India developed in the Indus River Valley‚ which is part of present-day Pakistan. The Indus Valley civilization dates back to 3000 B.C. Scientists and archaeologists that studied the Indus Valley‚ found
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’The Indus Valley Civilization as a distinct entity gradually ceased to exist’. Scholars have given different answers to the question as to why did the civilization end? Some scholars‚ believing in a dramatic collapse of the civilization‚ have looked for evidences of a calamity of catastrophic proportions‚ which wiped out the urban communities. Some of the more plausible theories for the decline of the Harappan civilization are: According to H. Weiss‚ from about 1800 B.C‚ the Indus Valley climate
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