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Planned Cities on the Indus
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Like the Harappan language......what else remains a mystery? Look at the culture-art.
Animals combined with parts of other animals
Animals combined with parts of other dinosaursl
Normal Animals
Animal Art
2
Geographers often refer to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as the
Indian Subtract
Indian Subcontinent
Indian Continent
Indian Sub-division
3
What caused earthquakes and floods and changed the course of the river?
Tecnotronic Plate Movement
Technical Plates
Techno Music
Tectonic Plate Movement
4
What seasonal winds dominate India's climate?
Monsoons
Typhoons
Tsunamis
Hurricanes
5
Who did they trade with?
Pakistan and Bangladesh
Afghanistan and Persia
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Kazakhstan and Afghanistan
6
Regarding India's climate, what else was unpredictable?
Monsoons
Floods
Tornados
Storms
7
How many symbols make up the Harappan written language?
4000
300
1000
400
8
What system did they build that could rival any urban drainage systems of the 19th century?
Plumbing and Sewerage
Plumbing and Electrical
Sewerage and Garbage Disposal
Electrical and Construction
9
The challenges that faced the civilizations along the Indus were similar to ........
Mesopotamia and Egypt
Sumer and Nubia
China and Egypt
Mesopotamia and China
10
It is believed that the earliest humans in India came from .........
Australia
Africa
Asia
America
11
Floods along the Indus were unpredictable like Ancient ...........
Sumeria
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Babylon
12
What did they receive from trading with peoples in the region?
Gold, Silver and Semiprecious stones
Gold
Gold and Silver Jewelry
Jewelry, Gold and Silver
13
Archaeologists think that Harappan culture was a ........
Polytheist
Democracy
Aotocracy
Theocracy
14
Harappan cities featured a fortified area called a ............
Ziggurat
Maze
Citadel
Cathedral
15
What was the first known ancient civilization in India?
Hungarian
Honduras
Hairpin
Harappan
16
What was their writing system and what language did they speak?
Hieroglyphics
We don't know because we can't decipher the written language
Caligraphy
Cuneiform
17
When did the Indus Valley Civilizations start to decline?
1750BC
1750
1000BC
1550BC
18
What was the most remarkable achievement of Indus Valley Civilizations?
City Planning
Village Market
City Building
Town Planning
19
What suffered as a result of overused soil?
Agriculture
Transportation
Trade
Culture
20
What was the impact of the change in the course of the river? No more .....
Cultural Diffusion
Invasions
Trains
Trade
21
The uniformity in the cities construction suggest that they developed a strong..........
Central Government
Feudal System
Man
Central Park
22
What enabled them to reach the ocean and trade with distant peoples!
The Ganges River
The Himalayas
The Indus River
The Bay of Bengal
23
In what city did almost every house have a private bathroom and toilet?
Memphis
Ur
Mohenjo-Daro
Harappan
24
The name of the two main rivers in India are the ........
Ganges and Indus
Ganges and Euphrates
Indus and Nile
Indus and Tigris
25
Which nomads arrive in the Indus Valley around 1500BC?
The Aryans
The Australians
The Hindi
The Afganis
26
How did we learn about the fate of the cities/how they declined? We used .......
Satellite Images
History Books
Photo Images
The Internet
27
Mesopotamian cities were unplanned whereas Harappan cities were planned on a ...............
Grid System
Random System
Block System
Square System
28
Why don't we know much about ancient Indian civilizations?
We are too dumb
We can't read
Can't read the writing system
We don't speak Indian
29
They built strong ............ (earthen walls) to protect from flood waters.
Walls
Levees
Irrigation Ditches
Buildings
30
Harappan culture was ........
Warlike and Prosperous
Peaceful and Poor
Peaceful and Prosperous
Warlike and Barbaric
31
What city was a good example of Harappan city planning?
Harappan City
Happening City
Hopeless City
Mohenjo-Daro
32
When did the Harappan civilization emerge? Around ........
2000BC
1500BC
2500BC
3000BC