1 / 10

Abdul Baqi

Abdul Baqi. Class Eight The Asian Grammar School Pishin. The lost city of Moenjodaro. The lost city of Moenjodaro.

josie
Download Presentation

Abdul Baqi

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Abdul Baqi Class Eight The Asian Grammar School Pishin

  2. The lost city of Moenjodaro

  3. The lost city of Moenjodaro Mohenjo-Daro was a city located in the south of Modern Pakistan in the Sind Province, on the right bank of the Indus River. It was built between four and five thousand years ago, and lasted until 3,700 BP. It was part of the Harrapan Civilization, and the city had at least 35,000 residents. Mohenjo-Daro means “mound of the dead”. The city was approximately one square mile in size.

  4. Homes • The houses of Mohenjo-Daro were built on a street grid somewhat like neighborhoods in modern cities. The wall of the building across the street shows multiple phases of rebuilding

  5. Buildings • They used timber to create the flat roofs of their buildings, there are brick stairways leading to the roofs of many houses, suggesting that roofs were used as recreational areas - as in early Anatolia.

  6. Religion • The seals and other artifacts found in Mohenjo-Daro point to a polytheistic region in Mohenjo-Daro. Certain plants and animals were sacred to them – the bull, the rhinoceros, trees, etc. This is yet another connection to Hinduism (Brahman, the creator and sacred bull). Cleanliness was also sacred to the citizens of Mohenjo-Daro as indicated by the Great Bath and the sophisticated plumbing and sewage system.

  7. Transport • Many of the streets were covered with mud brick and were wide enough for an ox-cart to drive down the middle.

  8. Trade • The people of Mohenjo-Daro were actively engaged in trade with other people of the Indus River Valley and with Mesopotamian civilization. • Seals, sculptures, and other artifacts from Mohenjo-Daro (or at least the Indus River Valley Civilization) have been found in Mesopotamia. These discoveries are likely evidence of trade between the two civilizations. Cotton was a commodity the people of Mohenjo-Daro probably exported, perhaps in exchange for minerals, tools, or other goods.

  9. Employment • Craftmens must have made this necklaces at Mohenjo-daro. • Builders must have made the "Stupa" at Mohenjo-daro.Breeders in Mohenjo-daro could have rear and breed cows.

  10. Skills Indus was a literate civilization; people not only could write but also were best calligraphers. High degree of craftsmanship and artistic ability has been reflected from collective Indus town planning, individual illustrative writing, pottery skills, knitting cloth, metal work, bead making e.g.: All the techniques they used in their works, representing into their living pattern, social and civil organization .

More Related