Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

Today we continued more presentations.

Indus River Valley

  • 3300 bc to 1900 bc
  • Southwest Asia
  • bordered by himalayas and Arabian sea
  • Indus river branched out into 7 great rivers 5 still exist
  • Lots of forest, plain, mountains, jungles deserts, and the river delta
  • river provided good soil for crops
  • River helped with trade
  • River provided most nessecities
  • Religion- similiar to Hinduism
  • worshiped animals
  • Gods are unknown because their religions died with the civilazation
  • wrote on pots and tablets
  • Made terracotta figures and shell working
  • 4 different classes
  • Important cities Lathal, Harappa(religious capital), and Mohenjio-daro(largest city)

 

 

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