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Indus Valley Civilization - Online Essay

Indus Valley Civilization

The earliest known Southern Asian civilization, flourishing c.2300-
1750 BC across 1.1 million km2 / ˝ million mi.2 around the Indus in
Pakistan. Over 100 sites have been identified with important urban centers
at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa (Pakistan), and Kalibangan and Lothal (Western
India). There were uniform principles of urban planning, with streets set
out in a grid pattern and public drainage systems.
Weights and measures were standardized, and there was widespread
trade with Western Asia. A common writing system was used, which remains
undeciphered. Great granaries on citadel mounts suggest the existence of
priest-kings or a priestly oligarchy. There is no firm explanation for ...

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citadel and
residential quarters.

At Harappa, exposed an impressive defensive wall, some 9 meters (30
feet) high and 14 meters (46 feet) wide at the base. The great walls of the
citadel emerged for the first time in their majesty as picks cut through
the blocking debris, The historical character of the Indus civilization
was changing and developing.

At Mohenjo-daro - better preserved than Harappa - the buildings of
the citadel were erected on a massive mud brick platform 6 meters (20
feet) high that covered 8 hectares (20 acres). The structures included a
large, ventilated granary, a 3-meter (10-feet) deep asphalt-lined pool,
the so-called Great Bath, probably used for ritual purification, and a
complex of rooms that was interpreted as priests quarters.

Extending over 100 hectares (250 acres), the lower town of Mohenjo-
daro was laid out along a regular grid of major streets up to 9 meters (30
feet) wide around blocks of residential apartments and narrow lanes.

The ...

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Added: 7/8/2005 10:32:05 PM
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