Indus River Valley storyboard WG1
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- The Indus Valley civilizations traded heavily with Mesopotamia
- The Indus river is located in modern day Pakistan and India
- The lines are the roads which were wide so elephants and carts could get through.
- The Indus people ordered their houses in grids. There were rich and poor secitions as well. Every house had a courtyard. The rich houses had big houses and large courtyards too.
- Poor
- Rich
- Their houses were made out of mud bricks
- The people also used the inside of their homes as shops because they slept on the roof as it was much cooler in the night
- We also have canapees to give us more shade!
- It has been found that the Indus people usally dined on seafood and chicken
- The Indus people also kept pets like monkeys, birds, lizards, and even snakes!
- Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, the ancient Indus people didn´t build any massive things.
- There are no evidence of big battles against other cities or invaders either
- The most likely ways that the Indus civilizations fell were of floodings making the river change positisions and making the ground worst for agreculture, and or trade problems with Mesopotamia.
- With large walls and a growing population, it was hard for the cities to expand. This lead the people to build over houses and religious sites.
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