Geography
This mountain range separates India from the rest of Asia
What is the Himalayas?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro cities were well planned, how do archaeologist know this?
Both cities were designed in a grid-like pattern with bricks that were designed exactly the same.
Both Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley were known for having a social class...
Ancient India referred to their social hierarchy as this...
What is a caste system?
Archaeologist don't know a ton of information about the Indus River Valley because...
What is they have not yet been able to decipher and translate their written records?
Excavators have uncovered evidence of combs, soap, and medicine, this shows us that
What is the people of the Indus River Valley were interested in cleanliness and good hygiene?
These two rivers made the land in Ancient India adaptable for farming
What are the Ganges and Indus?
System they used to modify their land for farming
Irrigation System
True or False: Both Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley had irrigation systems
What is true?
Two types of natural disasters archaeologist believe may have caused the Indus Valley to collapse
What are earthquakes and droughts?
This group was at the top of the caste system
What is the Brahmins (priests)?
These strong winds caused the rivers to flood and make land more fertile for farming
What are monsoons?
The Indus River Valley civilizations were the first people to create one of these systems in their cities
What is a sewer system?
The written languages of Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley
What are Cuneiform and Sanskrit?
This will allow us to one day learn about the ancient settlements of the Indus Valley
What is deciphering their writing?
The people of Ancient India kept records on this
What are clay tablets?
These are the names of the highlands located on the east and west coastal areas of India?
What is the Ghats?
Great Bath in Indus Valley cities were designed for
Special religious functions
True or False: Both Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley had known laws.
What is False: Only Mesopotamia had known laws
Name two theories of how the Indus River Valley Civilizations may have ended
Natural Disasters, Unintentionally destroyed their own environment, invaded by nomadic warriors
The levels of the caste system were called
What are varnas?
The Ganges river fed into this body of water.
Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea
What is the Bay of Bengal or the Indian Ocean?
Two things the Aryans brought to the Indus Valley
What are the caste system and Sanskrit?
Name two things that made both Ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley civilizations
What is:
common religion, cities, government, record keeping system, technology, and social hierarchy
This led archaeologists to believe that there may have been a strong central government for the entire Indus River Valley
What is the planning of cities was the same throughout the whole river valley?
What conclusion can be made from the statement below
Archaeologists have found jewelry made in Harappa as far away as Mesopotamia.
What is Indus River Valley cities traded with other foreign cities?