The Indus Valley civilization, a Bronze Age civilization in South Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan from the northwestern part of India. It was one of the early civilizations of the ancient world, were the other two ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and was the largest of the three. Just like any other ancient civilization, it was the equivalent of the Nile in ancient Egypt which flourished in the Indus Basin.
The Indus Valley Civilization has existed for years, but the age distribution in three different periods of the history. Mature Harappan period, dated to 2600-1900 BC, the early Harappan and late Harappan period lasted BC 3300-2600 and 1900-1300 respectively.
List Let's jump into clear view, the Indus Valley people read and a language, but for some reason we still can not read the language, we have because of some archaeological find out about them .
10. They Were Ahead Of Their Time
An artist’s reconstruction of the gateway and drain at the city of Harappa (image via; sci-news.com)
The Indus Valley Civilization also placed high priority on hygiene. Harappa and Mohenjo-daro was the world's first sanitation systems. Most homes had to carry waste water from the gravity attached to the main drainage system, the European leader of the 18th century, this kind of system. Ancient Indus sewage and drainage systems that have been used in the Indus region, were leagues ahead of any contemporary urban city in the Middle East. It also is believed that the drainage system was more efficient than those in many parts of the India and Pakistan.
To any government and is not an outward sign of the complicated decisions that were imported. Build cities was highly uniform and a well-planned grid pattern. He was probably the monarchy system, but different leaders for different cities.
9. The Great Bath of Indus Valley Civilization
The building structure by one of his most captivating things about the Indus Valley civilization was not any temple or monument, which is seen in the ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to modern civilization, this instead it was a public bath in the bath Mohanjo- named daro.
11 × 7 mm in depth 2.5M around Bath. It has served as the entry pool that had two broad staircases from the North and South. A hole can also be used to drain the water in which it was found in the bath, at the end. The pool floor and walls of brick and clay was finely fitted water-tight to get laid with gypsum plaster. Pool sides and the floor was covered with a thick layer of waterproof tar.
Although the purpose of the bath is still much debate. , A kind of ritual is still practiced in India, but most Hindus, believe that genes and among Buddhists but many scholars had built for religious purposes. Indus Valley people may think that the renewal of the water and the bather.
7. Astonishing Seals
The wide range of people from Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization that is goods with Egypt that is accepted among historians. Maybe they were the first people to wheel transport. But the most interesting things that produce "seals" were to be used as identification markers on the material and clay tablets.
This cell is a written language that we still can not read the strange creatures, animals and people (probably contains a lot of interesting designs of the gods). But the most famous dark Pachupati seal is a seal. This is a three-headed buffalo with horns on his head stamped middle man sitting between a lion and a bull. The exact meaning is not well understood, but the Hindu god "Shiva" or "the animals is suspected of being the reflection of what is regarded as". The man is sitting with bent legs in a position that seems to medication, some believe it may be the earliest example of the practice of yoga.
The inventions and discoveries made by Indus valley civilization doesn’t sound interesting today, but they were great achievements at their time. We’re talking about the age when the rate of innovations was much lower than the modern time period, while number of inventions and discoveries done by humans didn’t skyrocket until 15th century or perhaps industrial revolution.
People of Indus valley civilization actually developed and used Buttons around 2000 BCE for ornamental purposes. Buttons were made out of seashells, some of them were carved into various geometric shapes. They had holes pierced into them, so that they can be attached by using thread. Earliest known button is found in Mohenjo-daro which is believed to be about 5000 years old.
Earliest apparent evidence of stepwell is also found in Indus valley civilization’s archeological site Mohenjo-Daro. It probably had religious significance which also seems to explain why later Buddhist and Jains adapted stepwells into their structures, both the ritual of bathing and stepwell reached other parts of the world with Buddhism.
Lothal was one of the most remarkable cities of Indus valley civilization, which was located in modern state of Gujarat. Lothal was a well planned town, engineers and planners engaged themselves to protect the town from consistent floods right from the beginning. They ended up dividing the town into 1-2 meters high blocks each serving more than 20 houses. Now, that clearly indicate that their engineers had the skills required to develop something modern as dockyard. Lothal engineers placed high priority on building a dockyard and a warehouse to serve the purposes of trade
In 1954, archaeologists discovered the world’s earliest known evidence of building and using an artificial dockyard in Lothal, which must have connected the city with the ancient course of Sabarmati river. The dock was build on the eastern flank of the town, and is regarded by archaeologists and historians as an engineering feat of highest order.
Indus Valley civilization developed techniques and tools as effective length with high accuracy, to weigh and measure time. Even as length, weight and clothing were among the first steps to Homo Sapiens. A quick study of objects found in the Indus region indicate variations on a large scale. Is marked on an ivory found in Gujarat is the smallest division ever recorded was approximately 1.7mm small division on the scale of the Bronze Age. But historians and engineers can be used with sub-decimal accuracy of 0.005 inch is speculation. He also used to measure the sub-decimal scale revealed by their hexahedron weights. About 28 grams, with a similar weighting for each unit English royal ounce or Greek uncia, with weights ranging from 0.05 to 500 1: 2: 5 ratio chart their weight.
You may think of dentistry to be a quite modern medical practice, but it’s pretty old, in fact it’s probably more than 7000 years old. People of Indus valley civilization practiced it in early Harappan period.
In 2001, while archaeologists were studying remains of two men in Mehrgarh, Pakistan which was the part of Indus valley civilization, proposed that people from early Harappan period perhaps had the knowledge of proto-dentistry. Later in 2006, archaeologists finally confirmed that the earliest known evidence of drilling a living person teeth is found in Mehrgarh, from the age of Indus valley civilization.
Eleven drilled molar crowns from nine different adults were discovered in Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh, that are believed to be 7,500 to 9,000 years old.
The Indus Valley Civilization was arguably was the best place on earth to a civilization which is situated on a plain of the Indus River. For anyone civilization was no shortage of food. The top of the Indus Valley 5 million population, that may not seem much but it was a huge success in the 21st century, 5000 years ago.
One of the best quality in the Indus Valley Civilization (or weakness) is that they were peaceful. Despite a population of more than 1050 sites and find archaeologists had little or no sign of war, murder and weapons use. The non-violent nature was a stark contrast to the contemporary civilization of ancient Egypt, whose leaders conquered neighboring earth and always willing to engage in war with others.
The Indus Valley civilization, was the most peaceful and progressive society in their cities were nothing short of heaven on earth in his time. He sewage systems and water supplies, brick houses with five millenniums before you can ask what on earth and baked.
Was very good in the overall development of the Indus Valley civilization for hundreds of years, but around 1800 BCE signs of gradual decline began to occur. 1700 was around 100 years after Christ Perhaps most people except for the cities.
Although the decline is not known but there are several theories to explain this thing could've happened. Some Indus valley avoiding the peaceful nature and weapons development proposal was a flawed military strategy, and an Indo-European tribe "Aryan" people on the ground in Central Asia.
But deforestation, tuberculosis or flooding could also play a role in the decline.
However, the Indus Valley civilization did not disappear suddenly, since many elements of this civilization can be found in cultures that emerged centuries after the collapse. Recent archaeological excavations indicate that the decline of the Indus Valley civilization drove them further East. Since 1900, India has significantly increased the number of sites BCE. Perhaps their children are living peacefully together with dozens of other races in India and Pakistan.
