1. Indus River Valley Notes #17 Due for a stamp: Ch. 2 Reading guide
Indus River Valley Notes #17 Due for a stamp: Ch.2 Reading guide ?’s HW-Reading: Hinduism

3. Indus River Valley Civilization
Who?
Indus River People
Where?
Indus River Valley
What?
Started a civilization
When?
About 2500 BC
Why
Rich soil and water provieded by the Indus River
Largest cities: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (population = 30,000)

4. The well-planned cities had:
N-S, E-W grid for streets
Drainage system, gutters
“garbage disposal”
Standardized building materials (bricks)
Publics storehouses for grain

6. What happened?
From about BC, historians think one or more of the following happened:
River changed course – no more water or good soil
Poor land management – overgrazing, overfarming
Earlier invasion by Aryans or others.

8. Aryans Who? Where? Why What? When? Nomadic Herders from the north
Indus River Valley
Why
Food (especially cattle)
What?
Invade
When?
About 1500 BC
Hinduism is a major development of the blending of the beliefs of the beliefs of Aryans and early Indus River people.

9. Indus River Civilization
Leaders No real leader like a Pharaohs or Hammurabi
Writing Too hard to decipher There are about 400 symbols
Religion Shiva is the main god There are links to modern
Hindu They worshiped the bull
Cities They were building planned cities while Egypt was
building pyramids. They were the first to use oven
fired bricks. Cities were laid out in a grid.
Monsoon Change in wind direction. Too much rain=flooding Too little rain=drought Makes farming hard.
The end Movement in tectonic plates moved rivers, caused
others to dry up and flattened cities.