HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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The Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro
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Buddhist cave paintings at Ajanta
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Development of the zero and decimal system
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Sanskrit poems like the Ramayana and Mahabarata
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Detailed explanation-1: -Solution: The Great Bath was a sort of modem swimming pool, discovered at Mohenjo-Daro. It is an example of excellent engineering work. It was built of burnt brick.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some historians believed the Indus civilisation was destroyed in a large war. Hindu poems called the Rig Veda (from around 1500 BC) describe northern invaders conquering the Indus Valley cities. In the 1940s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler discovered 39 human skeletons at Mohenjo-Daro.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In 1950, Sir Wheeler recognised one large building in Mohenjodaro as the “ Great Granary", close to the Great Granary is a large and elaborate public bath or tank sometimes called “ The Great Bath".