WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -These cities include Harappa, Ganeriwala, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, Rupar, and Lothal in modern-day India. In total, more than 1, 052 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River and its tributaries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Excavation of both Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro shows that each city had an advanced city planning, including carefully organized houses, a sewer system, major streets, and warehouses used for storing food and merchandise and large city walls.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were thought to be the two great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, emerging around 2600 BCE along the Indus River Valley in the Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the more significant features of Harappan cities was their sophisticated water supply and waste extraction systems. In Mohenjo-daro, water was supplied from some 700 wells to both public and private facilities. Most houses in the lower town had their own bathrooms; many had their own wells.