This is a presentation on the Indus Valley Civilization!!!

2.  Indus Valley Civilization, also
called the Harappan Culture
was one of the earliest urban
civilizations in the world.
 Along with Egyptian and
Mesopotamian civilizations, it
was one of three early
civilizations of the old world.
 The Indus Valley Civilization
was a Bronze Age civilization
(3300–1300 BCE), extending
from what today is northeast
Afghanistan to Pakistan and
northwest India.

3.  About 5000 years ago, a group of nomads travelling from
Sumeria (present-day Iran) entered North Western India,
near present day Karachi (in Pakistan). These nomads found
a land so richly fertile by the banks of the river Indus that
they settled there without hesitation. This area was abundant
with water, fodder and fuel.
Over the next thousand years, the immigrants spread over
an area of half a million square miles. This area later came to
be known as the “Indus Valley Civilization”.
It flourished in the basins of the Indus River, one of the
major rivers of Asia, and the now dried up Sarasvati
River, which once coursed through northwest India and
eastern Pakistan together with its tributaries

4. Mohenjo-Daro
Harappa
Lothal
 These cities were made of bricks either baked mud or wood
bricks.
 The baked bricks were a superior version of the sun-dried
bricks used in other civilizations.
 The amazing part was that the workers made every brick of
the same size.
 The type of brick used, ensured the durability of the
buildings.

5. Map Of Indus Valley Civilization

6.  The name Mohenjo-Daro means 'Mound of the Dead' in
Sindhi.
 The city was built around 2600 BC and abandoned around
1700 BC.
 Evidence suggests that the city was highly prone to floods.
 Mohenjo-Daro was primarily an agricultural city.
 It was situated below the great mountain ranges, with rivers
flowing abundantly through the land, depositing rich fertile
soil. This made evident, the fact that agriculture was the
main occupation.
 There was a large well, a central marketplace and several
granaries in the city.
 Near the granary was the great public bath house, known as
the ‘Great Bath’.

7. Mohenjo-Daro City Great Bath

8.  Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab,
eastern Pakistan, about 24 km (15 mi) west of Sahiwal.
 The site takes its name from a modern village located near
the former course of the Ravi River.
 The current village of Harappa is 6 km (3.7 miles) from the
ancient site.
 Although modern Harappa has a railway station left from the
period of British Raj, it is today just a small crossroads town
of population 15,000.
 The city is believed to have had as many as 23,500 residents
and occupied over 100 hectares (250 acres).

10. Worship of Sacred
Animals
Worship of fertility
Goddess
These nomads worshipped certain animals and goddess of fertility.

11. Indus Seals
Archaeologists have not been able to decipher these seals
yet.

12. The End