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Indus Valley Civilization
What were some remarkable features of the harappans?
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Indus Civilization, also called indus valley civilization or Harappan Civilization, the earliest known cultures in the city of the Indian Sub. The nuclear history of the civilization appear to be dated to about 2500-1700 year, F.£., also, South Park, have been found in each of the 2nd millennium, the F. SEK-then and now.
These things were first discovered in 1921 by the Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-Daro (mohenjodaro), near the banks of the river, in the Indian region of Sindh (Sindh). Both sites are located in what is now Pakistan, in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh, respectively. The ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, was listed as a UNESCO world Heritage site in 1980.
Subsequently, these civilizations were, there are still so far apart from each other, as Sutkagen Dor, in the south-western province of Balochistan, Pakistan, india, close to the coast of the Arabian Sea, about 300 miles (480 km) to the west of the City, and the Ropara (or Rupara), in the eastern state of Punjab in north-west India, at the foot of the Shimla Hills, to about 1,000 miles (1,600 km to the north-east of the Sutkagen Dor. Recent studies have established the presence of the south, along the western coast of India, Khambhat Bay, Kambai), a 500-mile (800 km) south-east of the City, and to the east of the bottomless Pit (Jumna) river Basin, 30 miles (50 km) north of new Delhi. As such, it is the world’s largest of the three, with the earliest civilizations in the world, the other two being the first to adopt christianity, and the land of Egypt, until this.
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Indus valley civilization belongs to Chalcolithic age/ Bronze age. It was the largest civilization on that period. It belonged to the time period of the Early Harappan age i.e., 3200-2600 BC. It was an urban civilization. Harappan script was pictographic and logo specific. It was written from right to left in the first line and left to right in the second line. This style is known as “Boustrophedon”. In 1826, Charles Mason was the first person, who noticed the remains of Harappa City. In the year of 1861, Archaeological survey of India was founded by Alexander Cunningham. In 1924, Sir Jhon Marshall named this civilization as Indus Valley civilization.
The most interesting part of this civilization was its brilliant town planning which constituted of:
ü Most of the cities divided into two parts a) Upper area b) Lower Area. (Dholavira divided into three parts)
ü In upper area a citadel was existed (Chanahudaro is the only city without Citadel). Rulers of the city was probably lived there.
ü In Lower area the common people lived.
ü Grid or Chessboard system where roads cut across one another at right angles and the city was divided into large rectangular or square box.
ü In most of the cities, houses built with burnt bricks (exception: Dholavira where stones used as a building material and in kalibangan, houses built with mud bricks)
