Indus Valley Civilization

Question 1

1st Director General of ASI

Answer 1

Alexander Cunnigham

Question 2

Excavation of Harappa

Answer 2

1921 - Dayaram Sahwney

Question 3

Excavation of Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 3

1922 - R D Banarjee

Question 4

Unique Features of IVC

Answer 4

> Urban Town Planning
Burnt Bricks
Underground drainage system

Question 5

IVC Site without burnt bruck structures

Answer 5

Dholavira

Question 6

Which age did IVC belong to?

Answer 6

Bronze Age

Question 7

Extend of IVC

Answer 7

> North - Manda, Kashmir
South - Daimabad, Maharashtra
East - Alamgirpur, UP
West - Desalpur
North-Western - Shortugai, Afghanistan

Question 8

Harappa

Answer 8

1. River - Ravi
2. Granaries, bullock cart
3. Sandstone statues of human
4. Copper chariot with canopy
5. Workmen’s quarter
6. Wooden Plough

Question 9

Mohenjo Daro

Answer 9

1. River - Indus
2. Bronze Dancing Girl
3. Pasupati seal
4. Steatite statue of beard Man, great bath, granary
5. Piece of woven cotton

Question 10

Suktagendor

Answer 10

1. River - Indus
2. Trade pt. b/w Harappa & Babylon

Question 11

Chanhudaro

Answer 11

1. River - Indus
2. Bead makers shop
3. Footprint of dog chasing cat

Question 12

Kalibangan

Answer 12

1. River Ghaggar
2. Camel bones
3. Wooden plough, fire altar, earliest debatable earthquake
4. Ploughes field

Question 13

Kot Diji

Answer 13

1, River - Indus
2. Situated on left bank of Ghaggar

Question 14

Rangpur

Answer 14

1. River - Madar
2. Left bank of Madar
3. Plant remains

Question 15

Lothal

Answer 15

1. River - Bhogava
2. Dockyard
3. 1st manmade port
4. Rice husk, fire altars
5. Chess
6. wooden plough

Question 16

Rakhigarhi

Answer 16

1. River - Ghaggar
2. Inscripted seal

Question 17

Surkatoda

Answer 17

1. Bones of horses

Question 18

Banawali

Answer 18

1. River - Sarawati
2. Barley
3. wooden plough

Question 19

Dholavira

Answer 19

1. Water Harvesting System
2. Water reservoir
3. Largest Harappan Inscription
4. Upper, middle and lower town

Question 20

Town Planning of IVC

Answer 20

1. Two parts of Town: upper & lower
2. Burnt brick structres
3. grid pattern
4. Multi storied houses
5. Wells and Bathrooms

Question 21

Great Bath

Answer 21

2.4 m deep rectangular pool with stairs on two sides and 6 bathrooms on two sides

Question 22

Inference of Granaries

Answer 22

Agriculture was well-known and practiced. Planners and self suffircient. Disaster managament, taxation, public districution, trade

Question 23

Citadel

Answer 23

a mini fort in the upper town, 6 citadels - HMDCBLK

Question 24

Evidence of wooden plough

Answer 24

Banawali, Harappa, Lothal, Kalibangan

Question 25

Cotemporary civilzations

Answer 25

Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Egpyt

Question 26

Port stops b/w IVC and Mesopotamia

Answer 26

DIlmun - Bharain

Question 27

Source of Lapiz Lazuli

Answer 27

Shortugai, Afghanistan

Question 28

Polity during IVC

Answer 28

1. Oligarchy - 6 Leaders/chiefs 2. Priest King 3. Centralisation 4. Uniformity in structures

Question 29

Society

Answer 29

Egalitarian society, no slavery, matriarchal pattern

Question 30

Religion

Answer 30

1. Mother Goddess 2. Nature elements 3. Pashupati 4. Humped Bull, unicron, Elephant, tiger, deer 5. Linga Worship 6. Secularism

Question 31

Harappan Script

Answer 31

Pictographic and geometric, not deciphered, Boustrophedon

Question 32

Harappan Seals

Answer 32

Used for trade purposes, steatite, copper, bronze, pictographic - animals

Question 33

Weights and Measures

Answer 33

Uniform throughout the civilization

Question 34

Metallurgy

Answer 34

Bronze = Tin + Copper

Question 35

Bronze Dancing Girl

Answer 35

Tribanga, ornamented, hair in bun with flowers

Question 36

Disposal of the dead:

Answer 36

Burial not cremation, usually NS direction, except at Rakhigarhi in EW Direction

Question 37

Types of Burials practiced:

Answer 37

1. Extended burial 2. Coffin Burial 3. Urn Burial 4. Fractional Burial

Question 38

Decline of IVC

Answer 38

Frequent Floods

Question 39

Where is Cholistan Located?

Answer 39

Desert area of Pakistan near Thar desert

Question 40

Early and Mature Harappan Sites