C. Answer in one or two sentences.
1. What was the extent of the Harappan
Civilisation?
2. Name some of the important cities of the
Harappan Civilisation.
3. What did the diet of the people mainly consist
of?
4. Name two famous statues or figurines found
from the Harappan sites.
5. Describe the clothes worn by the people of the
Harappan Civilisation.
Answers
Answer:
1:-The Harappan civilisation extended from Baluchistan and Sindh (present-day Pakistan) to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and parts of western Uttar Pradesh. The civilisation approximately covered about 1,300,000 sq km. The cradle of this civilisation nested on the banks of the Indus river.
2:-These cities include Harappa, Ganeriwala, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, Rupar, and Lothal in modern-day India.
3:-The Harappans grew lentils and other pulses (peas, chickpeas, green gram, black gram). Their main staples were wheat and barley, which were presumably made into bread and perhaps also cooked with water as a gruel or porridge.
4:-There are plenty of terracotta seals and figurines recovered from Harappan sites which range from toys to cult objects such as mother goddess to birds and animals , including monkeys, dogs, sheep, cattle-both humped and humpless bulls.
5:-Textiles are rarely preserved and Harappan figurines are usually unclothed, so there is not much evidence of Harappan clothing. ... The limited depictions of clothing show that men wore a cloth around the waist, resembling a modern dhoti and like it, often passed between the legs and tucked up behind.
Answer:
1:- extended from Baluchistan and Sindh to Gujrat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and parts of western uttar Pradesh
2:-lothal,kalibagan,Mohan jodaro
3:-Apart from meat,the peoplethe people of Indus valley civilization grew and ate a variety of pulses and cerealsand this is the evidence of the Harappan civilization Italian millet ragi and amarnath as well as shorghum, rice.
4-dancing girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost wax coating about 2300-1750 bce in the Indus valley civilization
5:-small fragment of cloth preserved be in the corrosion product of metal object show that the harrapans wove a range grades of cotton clothes