Starter quiz
- When did the people of the Indus Valley start farming?
- around 1000 years ago
- around 5000 years ago
- around 8000 years ago ✓
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- Someone who buys and sells things is called a...
- 'merchant' ✓
- The streets in the cities were wide enough for two ______ to pass each other.
- chickens
- pigs
- elephants ✓
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- What did the people of the Indus Valley build to get fresh water into their cities?
- toilets
- drains
- wells ✓
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- What did the people of the Indus Valley build to take away dirty water?
- streets
- wells
- walls
- drains ✓
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- Select the two materials that the Indus Valley people used to make clay bricks.
- sand
- rocks
- clay ✓
- mud ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which items did the people of the Indus Valley decorate?
- clay seals ✓
- plates ✓
- cups ✓
- beads ✓
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- Some of the animals carved onto clay seals were imaginary.
- True ✓
- False
- Being able to do something very well from training or practice is called...
- 'skill' ✓
- Select all the items made from gold that have been found in the Indus Valley.
- buttons ✓
- jewellery ✓
- statues
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- Carnelian beads from the Indus Valley were found near…
- London
- Babylon ✓
- Cairo
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- The Indus Valley people made jewellery from precious metals and precious…
- sand
- clay
- stones ✓
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Key learning points
- The people of the Indus Valley civilisation produced lots of highly decorated objects and art.
- The seals that they produced had beautiful pictures of different animals including oxen and even imaginary animals!
- These seals often had holes on the back of them and archaeologists think this could have been to hang them on a string.
- These people made beautiful jewellery out of carnelian, gold and other precious materials.
- Some of this jewellery has been found in Mesopotamia, showing that the Indus people must have traded there.
Common misconception
Art from the Indus Valley civilisation has only been found in the Indus Valley.
Art from the Indus Valley civilisation has been found in places like Mesopotamia, showing us that the Indus Valley people probably travelled there and traded with the Ancient Mesopotamians.
Keywords
Art - art is the creation of things to be beautiful, using lots of skill
Skill - being able to do something very well from training or practice is called skill
Precious - when something is of great worth or value it is said to be precious
Carnelian - carnelian is a brownish-red mineral that is often used to make jewellery
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