Crash Course
This term means when one person or group makes more food than they need, allowing others to specialize.
What is surplus production?
The Indus Valley Civilization traded with this civilization as early as 3500 BCE.
What is Mesopotamia?
The term is used to describe complex societies with features like cities and governments.
What is a Civilization?
Most homes were connected to a centralized one of these systems to remove waste.
What is a drainage/sewage system?
These small, carved objects with symbols were used for trade and identification, and feature animals.
What are seals / seal stamps?
According to the video, a civilization often has this shared beliefs or religion.
What is shared Values?
This major Indus Valley city featured an advanced drainage system and uniform urban planning.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
Early civilizations often developed near these geographical features, which provided water and fertile soil.
What are Rivers?
The city layout was arranged so as to catch this natural force to help cool buildings.
What is wind/ventilation
When did the Indus River Civilization exist?
What is 3300-1300 BCE?
What is Nomadic lifestyle?
One theory for the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization involves this natural disaster altering river patterns.
What is an Earthquake?
This early civilization, known for its urban planning and peaceful society, flourished around 3000 BCE near the Indus River.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
Despite their large populations, Indus cities lacked these structures that were common in other ancient civilizations, like ziggurats or pyramids.
What are temples or monuments or palaces?
The Indus Valley was located near these two rivers.
What is Indus and Sarasvati rivers?
The Indus Valley Civilization is located here.
What is along Indus River or modern-day Pakistan?
Unlike other ancient civilizations, the Indus Valley people showed little evidence of this activity.
What is Warfare?
A problematic aspect of the word "civilization" is that it implies other groups are this.
What is Uncivilized?
These buildings were common in Indus cities and may have been used to store surplus grain.
What are granaries?
This statement best describes the Indus Valley Civilization’s approach to warfare
What is Archaeologists have found little evidence of warfare or weapons?
The Key Developments of the Indus Valley Civilization. (Name 3 out of 4)
What is advanced urban planning, sophisticated drainage systems, major cities: Mohenjo-daro & Harappa, innovation: standardized weights and measures
This large public structure in Mohenjo-Daro may have been used for religious or ritual bathing.
What is the Great Bath?
One challenge historians face in studying the Indus Valley Civilization is that this has never been deciphered.
What is their writing system?
The standardized size of bricks used in construction suggests that the Indus cities had this kind of authority overseeing building practices.
What is a centralized government?
Another possible reason is that people from this region might have invaded or overtaken Indus cities.
What is the Caucasus / or “populations from the Caucasus”?