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100
This modern day country that begins with the letter "P" is where the Indus River is found.
What is Pakistan?
100
This modern day country is just to the east of the Indus River.
What is India?
100
The Indus people grew these crops.
What is wheat, barley, dates, and melons?
100
When you grow more crops than you need, this is called a...
What is surplus?
100
Because the Indus poeple had a surplus of crops, they had time to make clay...
What is pottery?
200
The Indus people used these to build their homes, forts and walls.
What is clay bricks?
200
The name of the form of written communication the Indus people used.
What is pictograms?
200
Picto means this.
What is picture?
200
Gram means this.
What is to write?
200
Pictogram means this.
What is to write with pictures?
300
Pictograms were drawn/carved into this.
What is clay tablets?
300
The snow from these mountains melts and flows to the Arabian Ocean, creating the Indus River.
What is Hindukush Mountains. (also the Himalayan Mtns.)
300
Indus city builders built this, which helped keep their cities clean. (less smelly) No other early civilization was this advanced in city building.
What is a sewage drainage system? (clay pipes)
300
Indus city planners built wide straight streets in this type of system.
What is a grid system?
300
Indus city builders built these around their cities and this is why they built them.
What is walls & for protection?
400
The population of the largest Indus city was...
What is 30,000 people?
400
The Indus people were the first civilization to use this type of cloth.
What is cotton cloth?
400
The Indus people made decorative ____________ and ___________ tools.
What is Jewelry and metal tools?
400
To protect their surplus crops the Indus people built these.
What is forts?
400
Historians believe that these two types of environmental disasters could have ended the Indus civilization.
What is earthquake or flood?
500
Name one of the most important major cities of the Indus River civilization.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
500
City planners divided Indus cities into these. One for businesses and another where people lived.
What is districts?
500
Possibly armies from central Asia, known as the _______________ may have invaded and forcibly took over the Indus people.
What is the Aryans?
500
The Indus Civilization settled in Pakistan circa ________.
What is circa 2500BCE? BCE stands for "Before the Common Era." It replaces the abbreviation B.C. (Before Christ)
500
About ___________ the Indus civilization seems to have suddenly ended.
What is circa 1500BCE?