WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The people of Mohenjo-Daro had “toilets” thousands of years before the rest of the world.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Indeed, while lacking impressive palaces or monuments, Mohenjo-daro featured numerous baths-most homes had washrooms-and an extensive sewage system, suggesting that a priority was placed on cleanliness and sanitation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro is called the “earliest public water tank of the ancient world". It measures approximately 12 metres (40 ft) by 7 metres (23 ft), with a maximum depth of 2.4 metres (8 ft). Two wide staircases, one from the north and one from the south, served as the entry to the structure.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was one of the earliest cities in the world, one of the most advanced of its time, and one of the first to be a major centre of a Bronze Age culture, the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3, 000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture.

Detailed explanation-5: -The status of the bathhouse as the city’s biggest and most prominent structure suggests that the people of Mohenjo-Daro highly valued cleanliness. Their entire ideology may have been based on cleanliness, according to historian Gregory Possehl of the University of Pennsylvania.

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