7706940701 | Indus River Valley Civilization | 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India | 0 | |
7706940702 | Leading Indus Achievements | Standardized weights and measures, seal carving, and metallurgy with copper, bronze, lead, and tin | 1 | |
7706940703 | Harappa | What was then the Punjab province of British India and is now in Pakistan, which was first excavated in the 1920s. | 2 | |
7706940704 | Aryan Immigrants | Mistakenly thought to be the first inhabitants of the Indus Valley dating back to around 1250 B.C.E | 3 | |
7706940705 | Mehrgarh | Earliest cite of Indus Valley with origins in the foothills of a mountain pass in modern-day Balochistan in western Pakistan. There is evidence of settlement in this area as early as 7000 BCE. | 4 | |
7706940706 | Urban Planning | Unique feature to Indus Valley Civilization with sought to efficiently design and use land and building structures. | 5 | |
7706940707 | Mohenjo-daro | The largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization but one of the world's earliest major urban centers | 6 | |
7706940708 | citadels | Central areas in a city that were heavily fortified—protected with defensive military structures | 7 | |
7706940709 | granaries | storehouses for grain | 8 | |
7706940710 | advanced architecture | Demonstrated by dockyards, granaries, warehouses, brick platforms, and protective walls, plumbing and public baths. | 9 | |
7706940711 | Great Bath | Found in Mohenjo-daro this may have been a large, public bathing and social area. | 10 | |
7706940712 | fire-baked bricks | Uniform in size and moisture-resistant—were important in building baths and sewage structures and are evidence that Harappans were among the first to develop a system of standardized weights and measures | 11 | |
7706940713 | urban sanitation systems | The ancient Indus systems of sewage and drainage developed and used in cities throughout the Indus region were far more advanced than any others found. | 12 | |
7706940714 | seal carving | The cutting of patterns into the bottom face of a seal, a small, carved object used for stamping. They used these distinctive seals for the identification of property and to stamp clay on trade goods. | 13 | |
7706940715 | metallurgy | The science of working with copper, bronze, lead, and tin. | 14 |
AP World History Indus Valley Civilization Flashcards
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