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Indus Valley Civilisation - Short Trick

Farthest sites, excavators and rivers, finds, trade and decline — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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The Four Farthest Sites

The northernmost, southernmost, westernmost and easternmost Harappan sites.

Trick 1

The four farthest sites

➜ north → south → west → east

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  1. 1Mandanorth — Jammu & Kashmir, on the Chenab
  2. 2Daimabadsouth — Maharashtra, on the Pravara
  3. 3Sutkagen Dorwest — Baluchistan (Pakistan), on the Dasht
  4. 4Alamgirpureast — Uttar Pradesh (Meerut), on the Hindon

Area about 12,99,600 sq km, a triangle · north–south about 1,400 km, east–west about 1,600 km · most settlements lie along the dry Saraswati (Ghaggar in India, Hakra in Pakistan) · Mature phase about 2600–1900 BCE.

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Sites in Pakistan — Excavator and River

Harappa, Mohenjodaro and the sites of Sindh and Baluchistan: who found them, when, and on which river.

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Sites in India — Excavator and River

The sites of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh: who found them, when, and on which river.

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Key Finds and Burials

What came from which site, the burial customs, seals, script and weights, and what was never found.

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Trade

The Sumerian names, foreign trading sites and a copper source.

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Theories of Decline

Why the Harappan cities faded — each theory and who proposed it.

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