Question

Describe the distinctive features of mohenjodaro

Answer 1

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Bricks, Beads And Bones. Describe some of the distinctive features of Mohenjodaro. ... The citadel owed its height to the fact that buildings were constructed on mud brick platforms. It had walls on all its sides.

Answer 2

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1. A Planned Urban Centre:

• Harappa was a planned urban centre. It was divided into two sections.
• One section of this city was small. It was built on a higher place.
• The second section was large but it was at a lower place.
• The archaeologists has named the first section as Citadel and the second section as the Lower Town.
• The citadel owed its height to the fact that buildings were constructed on mud brick platforms.
• It had walls on all its sides.
• These walls separated it from the Lower Town.

2. The Citadel:

• The citadel had many buildings which were used for special public purposes.
• The most important were the following two structures:
• (i) The Warehouse
• (ii) The Great Bath
• With its special structure many scholars believe that Great bath to be for some ritual baths.

3. The Lower Town:

• The Lower Town was also a walled town.
• Most of the buildings were built on platforms.
• These platforms served as foundations.
• It has been estimated that if one worker moved about a cubic metre of earth daily, it would have needed four million person days.
• In other words, we can say that it required mobilisation of labour on a very large scale.