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    Mohenjo-Daro was one of the most important cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. It is the largest and best preserved city of the Indus Valley Civilization. It is located on the right of the Indus River and it’s in southern Pakistan. It was built around 2500 BC and has a surface land area of 500 acres. This is such a large area that archaeologists believed it served as the main source of power for the civilization. One monument that was found that was important in that area was “The Great Bath

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    "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure" (Baryshnikov). Music and dance, whether solo or coupled have the ability to mindfully catapult one through a porthole; where the practitioner or admirer is adrift and present. Meanwhile, in its performance, granting both ad-lib and formulated with variations. Subsequently, it has been portrayed in visual manifest or its tangible, wherein concrete expressive vessels in antiquity. Enthrallingly, as more discoveries immerge, one occurrence

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    Ancient Economy Indus Valley Report The Indus Valley civilization, which lasted from 5,500 B.C.E to 1,500 B.C.E, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations of all time and it had an economy which was extremely dependent on trade, agriculture, hunting, and pottery. Through trade, the Indus Valley Civilizations exchanged many technologies with other major civilizations and this allowed them to become one of the most successful civilizations of all time. Although their cities, which had buildings

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    Documents 1 Someone who is divine, or who came from the gods. Gilgamesh was two-thirds god, one-third man. 2 Gilgamesh believed that he could reach the afterlife through earthly methods, which made him go on a journey. 3 Gilgamesh’s philosophy was that he had been created to find the afterlife. 4 The Gods and humankind have not a very good relationship. “‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.’ So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind….” (95)

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    Everything has it’s falling point, you do, Rome did, Mohenjo Daro did, as did the fictional society of Unwind, everything falls at some point. The falling of societies is common, every society ever has fallen and has yet to fall. Societies fall due to corrupt government, overuse of resources and citizen revolts. Rome, Mohenjo Daro and Unwind fell due to those reasons. Societies can fall for a number of reasons, such as corrupt leaders or a corrupt government in general. Of all things corrupt government

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    Explain the Harappan society. Include the following in your description: Its location (include the continent, fresh water source, and what it is today). The founders of the society. Its economic foundation. The Harappan society was an urban society in south Asia. It was built by the Dravidian peoples in the valley of a river, the Indus, whose waters were available for irrigation of crops. As such, their economical foundation was based on agricultural production. Furthermore, the Harappan society

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    settlements which quickly developed into a full-blown civilization with the domestication of cattle, wheat, and barley. The Indus valley underwent extreme culture change from 2600- 2500 BC, from small settlements to a civilization with two main cities Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. Both cities were technologically advanced with complex grid city plans, sanitation drains, and bath

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    Throughout history, early civilizations have had to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive. This includes geographical features such as mountains, bodies of water, and deserts. While it may seem that the terrain has not affected them, it has caused much innovation and development in many of these early civilizations. From the Ancient Egyptians using the Nile River as a source of nutrience for their crops, to the Ancient Chinese digging canals throughout the 9 provinces to help with the flooding

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    settlements are situated along the banks of the Indus River .The largest and most important of this civilization were its two prospering cities known as Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. These names are of post–Indus origin as they were given with reference to the towns built much later on the ruins of these ancient cities. During their prosperous period,, Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa had a population of around 40-50 thousand, which was a lot by ancient standards. Both of these cities were highly organized and strategically

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    cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa to life. But the main cause that impacted these cities was because of agricultural purposes. The cause of the successful civilization of the Indus Valley was because of the Agricultural Revolutions, a time in which the early peoples turned to food production and cultivation. As

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