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Indus Valley Civilization - Key Points
for SSC CGL 2017
Your preparation for any competitive exam is incomplete without having a good
knowledge of the ancient civilisations, be it SSC CPO, SSC CGL, IBPS Clerk, SBI
PO, SBI Clerk, LIC AAO etc. The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the most
important civilization among them. You will find many questions from related
to Harappan Civilization in most important exams. Hence it is important that you
study this topic thoroughly. To help you with that, we are providing you Key Point
& GK facts about Indus Valley Civilization In this article.
If you go through the list of SSC CPO Questions asked in Tier I 2017, you will
find that SSC frequently asks closely related questions based on The Indus Valley
Civilization or the Harappa Civilization. If you want to be prepared to face such
questions in your SSC CGL 2017 exam, then do go through this article on Indus
Valley Civilization (Harappan) carefully. You can also download it as PDF once
you are done reading it.
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Extent of Indus Valley Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization - Sites, Locations &

Importance
Several thousand years ago there once thrived a civilization in the Indus
Valley located in the Indian Sub- continent. Harappas are the name given to the
people of this civilization and this article will enhance your knowledge about the
culture, art, history, discoveries, etc. during the Indus Valley Civilization.
Site Name Location Importance
Things: Indus script used for authentication

of trading goods impression of a seal on
terracotta lump of
burnt clay, chart blades,
copper implements, terracotta
beads & bangles typical, standardized pottery
of Harappan civilization.
Architecture: Earliest houses at Rupar

were built with river pebbles which were
available in abundance but soon they
started using cut slabs of lime with the
Punjab same ratio of 4:2:1. Sun-baked
bricks were used in foundations.
Rupar
On left bank Houses were built to suit
Of Sutlej river climatic conditions. Walls were
plastered with water repelling sticky clay.
Animals: Among the animal bones are

(a) Domestic Dog
(b) Common Indian Rat
(c) Indian Elephant
(d) Zebu or Domesticated
Humped Cattle of India
(e) Indian Domesticated Buffalo
(f) Domestic Goat
(g) Domestic Sheep and
(h) Domestic Pig
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Technical Advancement: The lower
town provided accommodation
for craftsmen, coppersmiths, goldsmiths,
shell-workers, bead-maker.
Their shops and working places marked

by the remains of their craft. Thus, two
coppersmith had a brick-lined
furnace, a cubical stone anvil, terracotta
crucibles and copper implements; a bead
factory had hundreds of carnelian
Beads in different stages of manufacture
including finished ones & circular kiln for
Lothal Gujarat
the heating of raw material.
The technical skill of the people is

attested by bronze drills of the auger type
with twisted grooves, besides flanged
ones, needles etc.
Lothal's dock: The world's earliest known

dock Connected the city to an ancient course
of the Sabarmati river on trade route between
Harappan cities in Sindh & peninsula of
Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert
of today was a part of the Arabian Sea.
Animals: Cattle, sheep and goat,

dog, horse, hog, pig,
Malwa Gujarat barasingha (swamp deer), & fish.
Things: Diminutive (extremely small)
blades made on tiny cores of jasper, agate,
chalcedony,& bloodstone.
Small objects of copper
or bronze.
Architecture: A fortified citadel & residential

annex, made of mud brick,
mud lumps & rubble, containing houses
Surkotada Gujarat
with bath-rooms & drains.
Things: A heavy copper
celt and a chisel
Architecture: Full-grown cityscape

consisted of bipartite 'citadel' a 'middle town' a
'lower town', two 'stadia', an 'annexe, a series
of reservoirs all set within an enormous
Dholavira Gujarat fortification running on all four sides.
Things: Three square steatite seals

much smaller and lighter and furnished with
figures but without inscriptions
Architecture: Use of baked mud

bricks in construction, ovens,
Rajasthan cylindrical pits.
On the left Things: Small-sized blades of

Kalibangan bank of chalcedony & agate, sometimes
the Ghaggar serrated or backed; beads,
(anciently known variously of steatite, shell, carnelian,
as Sarasvati) terracotta and copper; bangles
of copper, shell and terracotta;
terracotta objects like a
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toy-cart wheel
& a bull; queen with
mullers, a bone point,
& copper celts, including
an unusual axe.
Traditions - Indus Valley Civilization & Later
Indus Tradition
Early Food ca. 6500 -

Producing Era 5000 B.C.
ca. 5000 -
Regionalization Era
2600 B.C.
Indus Civilization &

2600 -
Harappan Culture
1900 B.C.
Integration Era
Late Harappan 1900 - 1300

Period or 1000 B.C.
Post-Indus Tradition
Painted Grey Ware +1200 - 800 B.C.
Northern Black
+ 700 - 300 B.C.
Polished Ware
Early Historic Period ca. 600 B.C

Indus Valley Civilization - Important Facts
Some important facts:
1. South Asia's first cities were established around 2600 B.C. in what is now
Pakistan and western India.
2. The peoples who built and ruled these cities belong to the Harappan Culture or
Indus Civilization, a civilization that developed at approximately the same time as
the early city states of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
3. This urban civilisation spread over a vast geographical region, from the high
mountains of Baluchistan and Afghanistan to the coastal regions of Makran,
Sindh and Gujarat.
4. Large cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro and smaller towns grew up along
the major trade routes as administrative and ritual centres.
5. During the full urban phase of this civilization, evidences of trade contacts have
been found with the surrounding cultures in the Arabian Gulf, West and Central Asia
and peninsular India.
6. The discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization was first recorded in the 1800's by
the British. The first recorded note was by a British army deserter, James Lewis, who
was posing as an American engineer in 1826.
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Indus Valley Civilization - Key Points

for SSC CGL 2017

Indus Valley Civilization - Sites, Locations &

Things: Indus script used for authentication

Architecture: Earliest houses at Rupar

Animals: Among the animal bones are

Their shops and working places marked

The technical skill of the people is

Lothal's dock: The world's earliest known

Animals: Cattle, sheep and goat,

Architecture: A fortified citadel & residential

Architecture: Full-grown cityscape

Things: Three square steatite seals

Architecture: Use of baked mud

On the left Things: Small-sized blades of

Traditions - Indus Valley Civilization & Later

Early Food ca. 6500 -

Indus Civilization &

Late Harappan 1900 - 1300

Painted Grey Ware +1200 - 800 B.C.

Early Historic Period ca. 600 B.C

Some important facts:

Early & Later Vedic Period – Society & Culture

Know Major Facts about Indian States

You will find more GK notes by us here:

Economic Survey 2017 of India

Facts about Demonetization in India

Indian Art and Culture

Famous Sites in India

Indian Presidential Elections

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