 What they harvested and domesticated. Also, how people once lived there. Finally, how long the Indus lasted.

 Archaeologists have no way of knowing what people in the early ages along the Indus Valley called themselves. So the people called them the Harappa civilization now.  The Harappa’s got their name from after the archeological site of Harappa in Pakistan.

 One year after the city of Harappa was uncovered, people near Harappa found a city almost exactly like it.  The found the city was found about 400 miles south of Harappa.

 The city of Mohenjo-Daro was not a very small city, and it was a fort.  They believed that 40,000 people once lived in in Mohenjo-Daro.

 The people that lived in the Harappa civilization lasted from about 2500 B.C. to about 1600 B.C.  The Harappa vanished from history.

 The people in the Indus Valley domesticated animal, and harvested various crops such as cotton, peas, barley, and sesame.  To grow their crop the farmers got help from the 6 inches of rain they got a year.

 The cities that were in the Indus Valley civilization were well organized and solidly built of brick and stone.  The settlements covered over 1.25 kilometers.

 The city that was described in our social studies book is called Harappa.  The people who lived their named the ruins after an ancient Indian god.

 The building that was next to the Citadel was a giant warehouse with grains in it.  The people think that from the size of the warehouse the farmers around the Mohenjo- Daro must have been very successful at growing wheat and barley.

 Mohenjo-Daro had a lot of houses. In fact they had more than one hundred sturdy brick houses.  Also, they had a lot of interesting streets.

 Citadel- a walled fort that protects a city  Harappa- a city of the ancient Harappan civilization, c B.C., located in the Indus valley of South Asia  Mohenjo-Daro- a city of the ancient Harappa civilization, located in the Indus Valley

 Archaeologists have no way of knowing of what the Harappa called themselves. People near Harappa people found a city almost exactly like it. Also, Mohenjo-Daro was a fort and they believed that 40,000 people lived there. Next, people in the Indus Valley domesticated animals and harvested crops. The building that was next to the Citadel was a giant warehouse full of grains In Mohenjo-Daro they had more than one hundred houses.

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