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- Indus River
- Welcome to the Indus Valley!
- We are in Pakistan and India.
- The Indus Valley started 5,000 years ago and lasted for 200 years
- People who did not have a courtyard would still have a flat roof. These roofs were strong enough to walk on. Families used them as an extra room. It was a cool place to sleep on a hot night and somewhere you could sit with friends. Our homes were very important for our shelter in harsh weather.
- These are our homes!
- Homes
- These were important because we didn't want to water everywhere.
- Dirty water flowed out of the house through pipes into a drain in the street after taking a shower.
- Sewer systems
- Great baths and rituals
- Hinduism also places importance on ritual bathing. Many people believe the 'great bath' found in Mohenjo-Daro suggests the Indus people held similar beliefs about purity.
- These were important for their spiritual beliefs
- These would mark the pot to say who's it is.
- seals
- If you pressed the seal into soft clay, it left a copy of itself on the clay. When the clay dried hard, it could be used as a tag, which could then be tied to a pot or basket.
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- Trade (buying and selling things) was very important in Indus Valley cities. Farmers brought food into the cities. City workers made things like pots, beads and cotton cloth. Trade was so important because they didn't have money
- Trade
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