Short answer type questions
1. Give reasons for thriving settlements at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
2. Describe the religious beliefs of the Harappan people.
3. Which crops did the Harappans grow? Which animals were domesticated?
4. What do you know about the Harappan script?
Long answer type questions
Answers
Explanation:
1 ) The harappa and mohenjo-daro have thriving settlements because they were set up in the bank's of river indus. which later came to be known as Indus Valley Civilization. Answer: ... the harappa and mohenjo-daro have thriving settlements because they were set up in the bank's of river indus.
2 )The Indus Valley religion is polytheistic and is made up of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. There are many seals to support the evidence of the Indus Valley Gods. Some seals show animals which resemble the two gods, Shiva and Rudra. Other seals depict a tree which the Indus Valley believed to be the tree of life.
3 ) The Indus Valley religion is polytheistic and is made up of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. There are many seals to support the evidence of the Indus Valley Gods. Some seals show animals which resemble the two gods, Shiva and Rudra. Other seals depict a tree which the Indus Valley believed to be the tree of life.
4) The Indus script (also known as the Harappan script) is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilization. ... In the early 1970s, Iravatham Mahadevan published a corpus and concordance of Indus inscriptions listing 3,700 seals and 417 distinct signs in specific patterns