Lesson 14: Unlocking the Secrets of Mohenjodaro

Harappa and Mohenjodaro were the two great centers of the (a)   Valley civilization.

How many years were the Indus Valley Civilizations powerful?

• 10 years

• 800 years

• 1000 years

• They were never powerful

Which modern country is Mohenjodaro located in?

• Pakistan

• India

• China

• United States

What evidence found by archaeologists suggests that Mohenjodaro was carefully planned?

What ways were Harappan Civilizations more advanced than other societies in the same time frame?

• They had multi-story houses, each with a private bathroom

• They created scales to measure market purchases and trades

• They had an advanced sewer system

• They were excellent farmers and would store extra food in granaries

A fortress built to protect a city

• Great Wall of China

• Granary

• Calvary

• Citadel

The place where people would go to clean and "purify" themselves daily

• The Purity Chamber

• The Great Bath

• Khufu's Pyramid

• Solomon's Temple

How have scholars learned about Mohenjodaro?

• by reading diaries left behind by its people

• by discovering what stone seals were used for

• by excavating the tombs of its kings

• by studying its buildings and artifacts

What did the discovery of a model of a two-wheeled cart suggest to archaeologists studying Mohenjodaro?

• what farm crops people might have grown

• where people might have built workshops

• how people might have transported goods to market

• why people might have made such models

What evidence supports the Great Bath being used for religious rituals?

• The Great Bath had a drain to remove dirty water.

• Bathing rituals are important in Indian religion today.

• Dressing rooms had paintings of religious rituals.

• Ancient Egyptian temples often had bathing pools