 Learn where Mohenjo-Daro is and what life was like there.

Mohenjo-Daro was discovered in 1992 By R.D. Banerji.  Mohenjo-Daro was built in about 3000 B.C.

The area Mohenjo-Daro is in is also called the Indian subcontinent.  Mohenjo-Daro is in southern Asia.

 Each home in Mohenjo-Daro had a bathing and drainage system.  The homes in Mohenjo-Daro were made out of equal sized bricks.

 They had a pool size bath tub.  They also had to some toys. The toys were small stone tablets. The Newcomers had to migrated across the icy passes of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

 They dressed in robes.  The girls dressed in gold necklace.

 The people of Mohenjo-Daro practiced Buddhism.  The people of Harappa cities also practiced Buddhism.

 Harappan builders and engineers were very skilled  The skilled workers carved beautiful figures from small squares of stone  Potters made jar, cooking bowls, and other containers  Metalworkers made everything from copper fish hooks to razors. They also made they also made fine statues of cast sand bronze.

 The people of Mohenjo-Daro traded with other people of the Indus Valley  Standardized weights and scales are evidence found in the city of Mohenjo-Daro are evidence that they had an organized trading system

 Around 1600 B.C Mohenjo-Daro was totally abandoned  People think it might have been because of an earthquake or massive Floods  The Newcomers had to migrated across the icy passes of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

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In summary Mohenjo-Daro was a large and powerful city in ancient India in around 3000 b.c. The people were wealthy and worked hard. The people practiced Buddhism. Finally Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned in about 1600bc.