INDUS VALLEY CIVILISATION

6TH STD – 1ST TERM

• Indus valley Civilization period - 3300 TO 1900 BCE

• The ruins of Harappa were first described in the book by – Charles Masson
• Who wrote that he saw a “ruined brick castle with very high walls and towers built
on a hill”? -Charles Masson
• When did engineers laid a railway line connecting Lahore to Karachi? - 1856
• Who found common features between Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro? - Sir John
Marshall
• Which city is older than Mohenjo-Daro? - Harappa
• The person who studies the physical objects such as bricks, stones to ascertain the
location of the city and time that it belongs to called- Archaeologists
• Which site was first discovered in Indus Valley Civilization? - Harappa
• What is a unique feature of the Indus Civilisation? - Town planning
• Indus valley civilization observed which pattern to construct streets? - Grid pattern
• The world’s first planned cities are found in? - Indus Valley civilization.
• IVC has a large, rectangular tank in courtyard called? - Great Bath
• The Assembly Hall was another huge public building at? - Mohenjo-Daro
• Do IVC has the evidence of the presence of palaces or places of worship? - No
• What did they consider has earliest example of a water-proof structure? - Great Bath
• Who has written about buying jewelry from the land of Melukha? - King Naram-Sin
of Akkadian Empire
• A naval dockyard has been discovered in - Lothal in Gujarat.
• Which also had advanced sanitation and drainage system? - Indus Valley civilization
• Which city is located in the banks of tributary of Sabarmathi river in Gujarat? - Lothal
• Ivory scale is found in which city? - Lothal in Gujarat
• What is the smallest division recorded on a scale of Indus valley civilization? - Ivory
scale
• Which is the largest among four ancient civilizations? -Indus Valley Civilization

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• Indus civilization is also known as? - Harappan civilization
• List out the borders of Indus Civilization?
West - Sutkagen-dor - (Pakistan)
East - Alamgirpur - (UP)
North - Shortugai - (Afghan)
South – Diamabad - (Maharashtra)
• What the important places in Indus Civilization?
Harappa - (Punjab, Pakistan),
Mohenjo- Daro - (Sindh, Pakistan),
Dholavira - (Gujarat, India),
Kalibangan - (Rajasthan, India),
Lothal - (Gujarat, India),
Banawali - (Rajasthan, India),
Rakhigarhi - (Haryana, India) and
 Surkotada - (Gujarat, India)
• Who used baked and unbaked bricks and stones for construction? – Harappans
• A male image identified as priest king is found in? - Mohenjo-Daro
• Which site was first discovered in Indus Valley Civilization? - Harappa
• Where the Great Bath located? - Mohenjo-Daro

➢ AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL DOMESTICATIION

• What were the crops they cultivated? - Wheat, Barley, Millets
• What was the name of Harappan Cattle? - Zebu
• What were the animals they reared? - Cattle, Sheep, Goats
• Does Harappans used horses? - NO
• Which cropping pattern Harappan adapted? - Double cropping pattern

➢ METAL TOOLS , WEAPONS AND TEXTILES

• Which metal was not known by Indus Valley people? - Iron
• The bronze of dancing girl founded in? - Mohenjo-Daro
• What was used by the Harappans for making blades? - Rohri-Chert
• The Harappans had the knowledge of which clothes? - Cotton and silk

➢ Trade and Exchange

• Which inscriptions mention the trade contacts between Mesopotamia and the
Harappans? - cuneiform inscriptions
• The mention of _________ in the cuneiform inscriptions is considered to refer to the
Indus region? - ‘Meluhha’

➢ WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

• The weight of Harappa point out that their knowledge of which system? - Binary
System.
• The ratio of weighing is doubled as? - 1:2:4:8:16:32

➢ Seals, Sealings and Scripts

• What were the metals used for making seals? - Steatite, Copper, Terracotta and
Ivory

➢ ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE

• The ‘Priest King’ was made up of which material? - Steatite
• The dancing girl was made up of which material? - Bronze

➢ RELIGION
• Indus people worshipped which tree? - Pipal tree
• Fire altars have been identified at? - Kalibangan
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• Which represents the first phase of urbanisation in India? - Indus Civilisation

• What are the phases of Harappan civilization?
EARLY HARAPPAN - 3000-2600 BCE
MATURE HARAPPAN- 2600-1900 BCE
LATE HARAPPAN- 1900-1700 BCE
• When was the urban phase prevailed? - Mature Harappan period
• Who first visited the Harappan site? - Charles mason in 1826
• The site of Harappa was destroyed for laying railway line between which regions? -
Lahore to Multan
• Who was the first surveyor of ASI? - Alexander Cunningham
• On which year Alexander Cunningham visited the site? - 1853,1856 and 1875
• Who has initiated the research at this site? -Sir john marshal
• Who has excavated the Harappan site? - Mortimer wheeler
• What are the Harappan sites that have been excavated in India? -Kalibangan,
Rakhi Garhi and Dholavira

➢ GEOGRAPHICAL ARE AND THE SETTLEMEMTS:

• How much area has the Indus civilization covered? - Nearly 1.5 million square meter
• What are the boundaries of the Indus civilization?
❖ Sutkagen - dor in the west on Pakistan Iran border
❖ Shortugai (Afghanistan) in the north
❖ Alamgirpur (Uttar Pradesh) in the east
❖ Daimabad (Maharastra) in the south
• What are the major cities in the Harappan period?
❖ Harappa (Punjab, Pakistan),
❖ Mohenjo-Daro (Sindh, Pakistan),
❖ Dholavira, Lothal and surkotada (Gujarat, India),
❖ Kalibangan and Banawali (Rajasthan, India) and Rakhigarhi (Haryana)
• Houses were made on which bricks? - Mud bricks
• Drainage were made of which bricks? - Burnt bricks
• Which sites has a planned town? - Mohenjo-Daro
• Where was the warehouse building identified? - Mohenjo-Daro
• The bricks of the great both was laid with the use of? - Gypsum mortar
• What was the most important source of substance for the Harappans? - Agriculture
• Where the ploughed fields have been found? - Kalibangan
• Which irrigation system they used? - Both well and canal irrigation
• Which animal was not known to them? – Horse
• What was the name of the Harappan cattle? - Zebu
• The craft products were exported to which region? - Mesopotamia
MATERIAL SITE OR SOURCE
Shell - Nageshwar and Balakot
Lapis lazuli - Shortughai
Carnelian - Lothal
Steatite - South Rajasthan
 Copper - Rajasthan and Oman
• What was the painting color in their potteries? - Deep red slip and black
paintings
• The Harappan civilization belongs to which age? - Bronze age
• They didn’t have the knowledge of which metal? - Iron

➢ TRADE AND EXCHANGE:

• Which inscription mentions the trade contact between Mesopotamia and Harappans?
- Cuneiform inscription
• The mention of “Meluhha” in the cuneiform inscription refers to which region? - Indus
region

➢ WEIGHTS AND MEASURES:

• Which weight system was used by the Harappans? - Binary system
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What was the small weight of measure of 16 ratio? - 13.63 grams
• 1 INCH = 1.75CM(approx)
• The longest text has how many signs? - 26 signs
• The “priest king” of satellite, dancing girl of copper had been found at which place? -
Mohenjo-Daro
• Which tree was worshipped by them? - Pipal tree
• Where the fire altars have been identified? - Kalibangan
• Do they suggest their belief in an afterlife? - Yes
• What was worshipped by the Indus people? - Nature
• Some of terracotta figures appear to be worship of which god? - Mother goddess
• What kind of polity had existed in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro? - City state like
polity
• Indus valley civilization declined from about which year? - About 1900 BCE
• What was the first urbanization of Indian history? - The Indus civilization
• Which towns of Tamizhagam flourished under the part of the second urbanization of
India? - Arikamedu, Keezhadi and Uraiyur