Geography & Timeline
City Design & Planning
Artifacts & What They Reveal
Daily Life & Culture
Thinking Like an Archaeologist
Final Jeopardy
100
In what country today would you find the ruins of Mohenjodaro?
Pakistan
100
What is the raised, walled area of Mohenjodaro called?
The citadel.
100
What do a scale and stone weights suggest people were doing in Mohenjodaro?
Trading goods and measuring items.
100
Where did most people live in Mohenjodaro: the citadel or the lower city?
The lower city.
100
What is an artifact?
An object made or used by people in the past.
200
Mohenjodaro was built near which river?
The Indus River.
200
What does a city laid out in blocks with planned streets tell you about the people who built it?
They planned ahead and organized the city on purpose (not randomly).
200
What do marked measuring rods suggest about the people of Mohenjodaro?
They had a uniform way to measure length (standard measurements).
200
What does it suggest when some homes have many rooms and some have only a few?
Some people were wealthier than others.
200
Which is easier for archaeologists to learn from artifacts in Mohenjodaro: what people ate OR what songs people sang?
What people ate, because food remains/tools can survive; songs usually don’t leave physical evidence.
300
The Indus Valley civilization lasted about _____ years.
800
300
Give one detail that shows Mohenjodaro was carefully planned.
streets divided the city into blocks, a citadel on a platform, organized neighborhoods/houses/workshops, advanced drains/sewers.
300
Seals with pictographs and animals might have been used for what two purposes?
As charms (worn for protection) and as tags/marks for goods in trade (pressed into wax).
300
Name two things archaeologists found that suggest people enjoyed games or entertainment.
Dice, game boards, game pieces, stone balls, grooved clay tracks.
300
What is one clue that makes the “invaders destroyed the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization” idea less accepted today?
There is a lack of evidence to support it, so many scholars reject it.
400
Which other ancient culture existed at about the same time as the people of Mohenjodaro?
The Egyptians who were building the Great Pyramid of Giza
400
Why might people have gathered in the citadel during times of trouble?
It was raised and surrounded by walls, so it was safer during attacks or danger.
400
What can beads and jewelry-making tools tell us about jobs in Mohenjodaro?
People were skilled craft workers/artisans who made jewelry (and used tools/kilns).
400
What does the Great Bath suggest about life in Mohenjodaro? Give two ideas.
bathing/cleanliness mattered; public spaces existed; it may have been used for religious rituals.
400
List two natural events that some scientists think may have contributed to the decline of Indus Valley cities.
Floods and earthquakes.
500
Mohenjodaro was divided into a lower city and a fortress known as the
Citadel
500
How did archaeologists first learn that Mohenjodaro had ever existed?
Archaeologists found its ruins.
500
A small clay model shows bulls pulling a cart. What does this suggest about daily life and work?
people transported farm goods to market; they used animals for work; trade/markets were important; farming supported the city.
500
What modern game do historians think developed from an ancient Indian war game?
Chess
500
Look at this table that shows information about Archaeologists in Mohenjodaro.
What is one reason later excavations were denied permission at the site?
The site was being damaged by weather, and digging/exposure could make it worse.
500
What is this Mohenjodaro artifact?
mirror