2600 BC to 1900 BC

Indus River Valley Civilization

system of weights and measures, Indus was thought to have a well formed government. They were also thought to have a complex system of plumbing in their houses.
~The decline if the Indus River Valley happened in 1900 BC.

~It is believed that the people here were polytheistic. There was said to be a goddess that was the center of their faith.
~Because their merchants used a

civilization was the largest.
~The Indus civilization had conflicts with the people of Sumer.
~The main cities of the Indus River Valley Civilization were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
~Mohenjo-Daro's roads were well planned out and in the shape of a grid. The houses were built with standard sized baked clay bricks.
~The people of Harappa used mud and unbaked bricks to build their houses.

~The job occupations of the people of the Indus civilization were mainly farmers, merchants, and traders.
~Archeologists believe that the people of the Indus River Valley may have been the first to develop cotton and transform it into cloth.

~This was the first South Asian civilization to emerge in the Indus River a valley, or present day Pakistan. It emerged in 2600 BC.
~Before the rise of Persia, the Indus