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google docs March 15, 2017.
What some things you would
find in a city?
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Write your first and last name,
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Study your study guide every night .
Essential Question
What innovations were used in Indus
Valley civilizations that improved the
quality of life?
Essential Standard
• 6.H.2.3 Explain how innovation and/or
technology transformed civilizations,
societies and regions over time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SCEY6CcW8O4
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What does Mojen Daro mean?
When were the ruins found?
What do you think happened to the people?
What was interesting about their bones?
• The City of Mohenjo-Daro
In its time, Mohenjo-Daro was a model of city planning.
Straight, wide streets, some as wide as 30 feet (about 9 m),
crisscrossed the city These streets were carefully laid out to
form rectangular blocks for houses and other buildings.
On a hill at the end of the city nearest the Indus River, a
walled fortress was built on a platform of bricks. A fortress
is a building designed to protect a city or army. The
fortress of Mohenjo-Daro like fortresses in all Harappan
cities was built in the western part of the city. The thick
walls of the ancient fortress protected government
buildings, a bathhouse, and a huge storage shed. The shed
stood 30 feet (about 9 m) tall and 1,200 feet (about 366 m)
long. It held more than enough grain to feed the city's
population, which by 1500 B.C. was about 45,000. The
grain in the storage shed was also used to pay many of the
workers in Mohenjo-Daro
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What is a fortress?
What was the storage shed used for?
What was the population of the city?
What is the name of the river near the city?
Why do you think they built a city near a
river?
• Most of the buildings in Mohenjo-Daro, including the huge
grain shed, were made of bricks. Instead of sun-drying
their bricks, as people in the Fertile Crescent and the Nile
Valley did, people of the Indus Valley baked their bricks in
ovens. These baked bricks were harder and lasted longer
than sun-dried bricks.
Only the wealthiest families in the Indus Valley lived in
the city's brick buildings. Most people lived in small huts
in villages surrounding Mohenjo-Daro. Some city houses
were two stories high and were large enough to have a
courtyard and rooms for servants. The doors of most city
houses opened onto alleys rather than onto
the busy main streets. The fronts of the houses, which had
no windows, looked much alike.
• Why did the people use baked bricks
instead of sun dried bricks?
• Did the rich people live inside or outside of
the city?
• Would you like to live in this city, why or
why not?
• Even the smallest city houses had separate rooms inside for cooking,
sleeping, and bathing. Some even had a separate room for a well.
Almost every house in Mohenjo- Daro had its own bathroom, some
with polished brick floors. Family members showered by pouring fresh
water over themselves with jugs. The runoff water flowed through
brick pipes into a city drain system running along the main streets.
The streets had covered openings that let workers get to the drains to
fix problems.
Each house also had a chute through which trash could be emptied into
a bin in the street. The garbage was then collected by city workers.
Within Mohenjo-Daro's fortress was a large bathhouse. The main tank
was 40 feet (12 m) long and 8 feet (2 m) deep. The bathhouse may
have been used by people in the practice of their religion. It may also
have been a gathering place where people exchanged news and
conducted business.
• Name one way the houses of Mojen Daro is
similar to yours.
• Name one way the houses of Mojen Daro is
different then yours.
• Why did the streets have covered openings?
• What was the purpose of the chute?
• Imagine you are taking a walk in Mojen
Daro. Describe what you see.
Now I will let students come up
and act this out.
• Imagine you are taking a walk in Mojen
Daro. Describe what you see.
• Play kahoot for Mojen Daro.
Watch movie Mojen Daro
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8BJTg
gtwW0 Stop at 12 minutes.