THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
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- There were many Environmental Challenges similar to Mesopotamian and Egyptian ones
- Historians don't have deciphered the method of Indus writing, the Indus Valley influenced an area much larger than Mesopotamian and Egypts
- No one knows where human settlement began in India. Archeologists found evidence in the highlands of agriculture and domestication of goats and sheeps.
- While Egyptians were building their pyramids Indus Valley were laying the bricks for India`s first cities, they built strong levees or earthen walls to keep water out of their cities
- Largest cities were Kalibagan, Mohenjo-Daro, and Harappa
- They had very good sophisticated city planning
- Cities featured a fortified area called a citadel
- Cities featured a fortified area called a citadel
- The streets in its grid system were as wide as 30 feet and 3 stories high, bathrooms where wastewater flowed out to the street and then sewage pits outside the city.
- they built strong levees or earthen walls to keep water out of their cities
- The city was built on mud bricks platforms to protect it from the floodings
- Archeologists have found more than 100 settlements mostly in modern day Pakistan. Indus Valley Civilization is sometimes called Harappan Civilization because of the many archeological discoveries
- Like the other two river valley civilizations the Harappan culture developed a written language
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