CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Question
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Houses were constructed with baked bricks
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They had standard weights and measures
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The cities had an organized pattern of streets
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The farms produced annual crop surpluses
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harappan civilization had collapsed by 1300 BC and the society had seemed to decline by 1900 BC. The “Indus valley civilisation” or “Harappan civilisation” declined around 1800 BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Conclusion: The Indus Valley people gave to the world its earliest cities, its town planning, its architecture in stone and clay, and showed their concern for health and sanitation. They built a scientific drainage system in their cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although the heavily populated cities had separate leadership, there was a uniformity to urban planning, sizing and weights of bricks and structures, similar artifacts and other architectural features that could suggest a central government.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indus Valley civilization apparently evolved from the villages of neighbors using the Mesopotamian technique of irrigated agriculture with sufficient skill to reap the advantages with the help of fertile Indus River.