Carson-Indus Valley
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- Welcome to the Indus Valley (Present day Pakistan). We live a long the Indus River. The Indus Valley has been around for about 800 years.
- However we still can't figure out how our city was destroyed
- Most of our people lived in the lower city. Our houses had flat roofs and were two stories high. Most people use the roofs as a place to be calm and peaceful.
- Homes
- We also had windows on the second floor. In most houses there are from one to a dozen rooms.
- The wells were very deep and had much storage. The rich and the poor would each have a private bathroom in their homes.
- Toilets (Sewer Systems)
- We have a very advanced sewer systems. The dirty water and waste flow in channels along the streets which emptied into the Indus river.
- The Great Bath is 39 feet long and 8 feet deep. The bath is used for religious reasons or to just bathe. Here you can cleanse your body and your soul.
- The Great Bath
- Many people come here on a hot day to cool down and bathe. There are dressing rooms that circle the bath if you want to get out.
- Seals are a mystery but we may know a few uses. It may have been a form of writing. Maybe they were pressed into wax to make a tag for merchants.
- Seals
- Seals could have been worn as charms to keep away evil.
- We would trade things like made from mud and clay. Also metal and tools made up of flint stones.
- Trade
- We would also trade colored gemstones like turquoise, lapis and and lazuli. We may have also trade painted terracotta pots.
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