Mohenjo-Daro
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- Mohenjo-Daro was built around 2000 BC and thrived for about 200 years.
- Mohenjo-Daro was thriving during it's time in the area around modern day Pakistan.
- The Mohenjo-Daro was on the banks of the Indus River, the longest river in Pakistan.
- The homes in Mohenjo-Daro were separated by a 10 meter wide road that was in a grid-like pattern.
- Builders in Mohenjo-Daro would build houses on top of each other to make more houses for people, eventually this made the civilization too overcrowded.
- Mohenjo-Daro builders would use mud bricks that were sun or oven dried then stuck together with mud to form houses.
- The people of Mohenjo-Daro had a place in their cities which was a gigantic bath house where people had their "great bath".
- Hindus still believe in this "great bath" as of today, the religion of the Mohenjo-Daro people still lives on!
- The people Mohenjo-Daro had their "great bath" because they believe it was purification their religion.
- People kept clean by standing over their brick "shower tray" when they took a shower, then the dirty water would go through the pipes out into the street drainage pipes.
- When the people of Mohenjo-Daro would take a shower they would fill a pot with water and dump it over their head in a special room that had a drain, that drain would rake that dirty water through the drainage pipes.
- These civilizations used to mostly trade cotton, lumber, grain, and livestock.
- Sometimes traders would brought the materials workers needed and took away finished goods to trade in other cities.
- The Mohenjo-Daro used to trade with Mesopotamian cities when both of these civilizations still existed.
- traders used seals like labels to show who owned a sack of grain, or that the correct city tax had been paid.
- Lots of seals have pictures of animals on them, including elephants, rhinoceros, tigers and fish-eating crocodiles.
- Traders in Mohenjo-Daro would have inscription seals that all had different animals or symbols on them.
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