AP World History Indus Valley Civilization Flashcards

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