Mohenjo-daro/harrapa

Question 0

29. What is it that we do know about the harrapan civilization?

Answer 0

• They depended on a successful agricultural economy
• Generated considerable wealth which caused social distinctions
• Specialized in labor and trade

Question 1

29. Why is so little known about the harappan society?

Answer 1

• There are two reasons
• the harrapan physical remains are inaccessible because they now lie below the water level
• lack of deciphered written record

Question 2

29. What are some explanations for the decline of the harappan culture?

Answer 2

• ecological degradation

- natural catastrophes

Question 3

29.What does the fact that mohenjo-daro had city walls, a fortified citadel, and a large granary suggest?

Answer 3

-served as centers of political authority and sites for the collection and redistribution of taxes paid in the form of Grain

Question 4

29. How was mohenjo-daro designed?

Answer 4

• very carefully planned and precisely laid out

- very grid like