Indus valley Made by Jay and Charlie Towns and building When and where Growing up Towns and building When and where Water systems Indus river Writing

. Growing up Water was very important to Indus people What were Indus Valley houses made of clay and mud. Valley houses made of? What was the Indus Valley like? An Indus city was made of mud-brick buildings. It had walls and roads. eople, so the builders started by digging wells, and laying drains. Main streets were up to 10 metres wide, wide enough for carts to pass.

When and where The Indus civilisation started almost 5,000 years ago. There were more than 1,400 towns and cities in the Indus Valley. The biggest were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Around 80,000 people lived in these cities. 3300-1700 bc.

Water systems The indus people were the first people to have flushable toilets. Water was very important to Indus people, so the builders started by digging wells, and laying drains. The Indus is the longest river in Pakistan, it's over 3,000 kilometeres long

Indus river THE INDUS RIVER COULD EVENTUALLY DRIE UP AND THEY WILL HAVE TO MOVE. The Indus is the longest river in Pakistan, it's over 3,000 kilometeres long

Towns and buidings. Around 80,000 people lived in these cities The names Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were given to the cities in later times. We do not know what the Indus people called their cities, because nobody has been able to translate their ancient language. The Indus cities were neatly planned. They had straight roads which criss-crossed in a grid pattern to form city blocks. The main streets were almost 10 metres wide - wide enough for two bullock carts or elephants to pass each other. Drains ran along the edge of the streets to carry rubbish away and wells were dug for clean water.

writing There writing was called coneiform they used a styles to write with. The Indus script (also known as the Harappan script) is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilization during the Kot Diji and Mature Harappan periods between 3500 and 1900 BCE.