WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The artists and craftsmen of the Indus Valley were extremely skilled in a variety of crafts-metal casting, stone carving, making and painting pottery and making terracotta images using simplified motifs of animals, plants and birds.

Detailed explanation-2: -The stone bust of a male figure found at Mohenjodaro has been given the label ‘priest king’. The figure is that of a man with a close-cropped beard, half-closed eyes and a fillet with an encrusted diadem around his head.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harappans demonstrated advanced architecture with dockyards, granaries, warehouses, brick platforms, and protective walls. These massive walls likely protected the Harappans from floods and may have deterred military conflicts.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.