5. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. What did the thick forests provide to the people of Indus Valley?
2. List the occupations of the Indus Valley people.
3. What type of climate did the Indus Valley have?
4.
How was the dress of the men of Indus Valley different from that of the women?
5. Why did the early civilisations develop on the river banks?
Answers
Answer:
1. thick forests provide sufficient timber for kilns and for building boats.
2. There would be skilled artisans and craftsmen, builders, carpenters, metalworkers, leather workers, weavers, and of course potters (many beautiful works of pottery has been discovered in the Indus Valley).
3. tropical is the climate . The climate of the Indus Valley Civilization of modern Pakistan was tropical and monsoon brought rains while the rivers were wider and carried more water.
4. People in the Indus Valley Civilization used to wear lower and upper garments chiefly made of cotton. The rich section of society used to wear woolen clothes during winter. Skirts, cloaks and scarfs were the main dress of women while for men the dresses included dhoti and shawl.
5. The first civilizations formed on the banks of rivers. Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and made the land fertile for growing crops.
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