The Indus Valley Civilization About Indus Valley Civilization The earliest traces of civilization in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along‚ or close‚ to the Indus River. Excavations first conducted in 1921-22‚ in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro‚ both now in Pakistan‚ pointed to a highly complex civilization that first developed some 4‚500-5‚000 years ago‚ and subsequent archaeological and historical research has now furnished us with a more detailed picture
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The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) that was located in the northwestern region[1] of the Indian subcontinent‚[2][3] consisting of what is now mainly present-day Pakistan and northwest India.[4]Flourishing around the Indus River basin‚ the civilization[n 1] extended east into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley[8] and the upper reachesGanges-Yamuna Doab;[9][10] it extended west to the Makran coast of Balochistan‚ north to northeastern
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The Indus Valley Civilization In 2300 B.C. the Indus Valley Civilization began developing itself into two large areas which ran along the river valleys of the Indus‚ Ravi and Sutlej. These river valleys were just below the Himalayan Mountains in what is now Pakistan and Northeast India. The Indus Valley Civilization was always under caution because of the unpredictable floods and the seasonal winds or monsoons. The positive side of these unpredictable floods and seasonal winds was the fertile soil
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Fertile Crescent and Nile River Valley About 5‚000 years ago in Sumer and Egypt (3000 BC) civilizations rose. Civilizations generally have rules and regulations‚ building and structures‚ agriculture‚ writing‚ and a religious structure. Before Sumer and Egypt rose up‚ people in the Paleolithic Age were nomadic‚ hunters and gatherers. They traveled in groups of 20-30 people. They had a spoken language‚ which was passed on and created culture. They had religious beliefs‚ which are believed to explain
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the home of one of the earliest civilizations of man. In the history of ancient India we see many forms of society ranging from urban civilization of Indus Valley to the Classical Age of Gupta Dynasty. During this period we see a hierarchy of centralized and decentralized government. Some of which were highly organized in their political structure and government while others were merely weakened by internal problems and division of power. Indus Valley Civilization was one of the world’s oldest and
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The Indus valley civilization was the largest of four ancient urban civilizations Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ South Asia‚ and China. It was discovered in the 1990’s but most of its ruins remain to be excavated. The Indus civilization was huge; it covered from Mumbai (in Marashta‚ India) in south up to Himalayas and northern Afghanistan in north. The far west of the Indus civilization is as far west as Arabian Sea coast (in Baluchistan‚ Pakistan) next to the Iranian border. The east of that large civilization
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The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India (see map). Along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia it was one of three early civilizations of the Old World‚ and of the three the most widespread. It flourished in the basins of the Indus River‚ one of the major rivers of Asia‚ and the Ghaggar-Hakra River‚ which once coursed through northwest India and eastern
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a major civil culture‚ known as the Indus River Valley Civilization‚ made it to its climax in a region now known as South Asia. The Indus Valley Civilization was an enormous civilization that consisted of over 1000 individual varying settlements. The settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization spread through what is now all of Pakistan‚ sections of Afghanistan‚ and some parts of India. When archaeologists attempted to investigate the civilization‚ one key aspect that was never resolved was its mysterious
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centercenter INDUS VALLEY CIVILAIZATION Submitted by: Fabiha Fatima Submitted to: SamiaUsmanSubmitted on: 16th October 2014 Submitted as: Regular Research Account Contents Introduction…………………………………………………….……………………..…...5 Location………………………………………………………….…………...……………5 Religion………………………………………………………….…………..…………….6 Languages………………………………………………………..………………..………7 Occupation……………………………………………………………………...………….8 Trade………………………………………………………………………...…………..…9 Architecture…………………………………………..…………………
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Indus: The Unvoiced Civilization The Indus Valley Civilization was an intriguing and sophisticated ancient culture‚ with many highly advanced inventions in civil engineering. The urban planning in cities like Dholavira was quite superb and had to be because it held up to 20‚000 people. The people kept this urban district up with large limestone pillars that increased the aesthetic and functional integrity of their buildings. Dholavira had an intelligent water system with water flowing both above
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