Dear friends ,
Today , I will tell u about a very rich and famous past of
our country. Though there are a lot of civilizations flourished in
India but none of them was so glorious as the Indus valley civilization.
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| Indus Valley Civilization |
As the name itself describes , this civilization was on the
bank of river Indus . This civilization flourished for around 2000
years B.C. and was contemporary to the Mesopotamian civilization.
This civilization is mainly famous for its town planning.
This was the first civilization where we find evidence of proper roads
and that too intersected and interconnected at right angle i.e at 90
degrees.
These people had a common and a very bigger bath. Their
drainage system was fabulous where drains were also interconnected with
the roads.
One thing which not most of us know is that actually the
toilet system we very aptly refer as Western is actually very much Indian in nature and is the phenomena used and introduced by Indus
valley people. I know this fact is a bit shocking for all of my friends
reading but this is very much true.
Every home in this civilization had an elevated sitting
area like our today's western toilets and had flush system to remove the
human waste which was connected to the superb drainage system. Not only
this , these people had a shower system for bathing on day to day
basis. For this , they had built a well and from that well they had
built an drain which brings water in their bathrooms in a form of
springs.
One more thing which we all do not know regarding the Indus
valley civilization is that this civilization was very much advanced in
its nature. It had its business ties with all the other known civilizations of that time.
We came to this conclusion by finding parts of Indus valley
pottery , tools , cosmetics and jewellery in other civilizations
places. This shows that Indus valley people had trade relations with
almost all the other known civilizations of that era.
One more thing which is a lesser known fact about Indus
valley civilization is that irrespective of others Indus valley people
never fought any war in its 2000 year span. With all of these glorious
facts some facts are not known till today like what happened to this civilization to crumble like sand castle Whether, it was a natural
calamity or a change in river's course or something else is not clear.
And thus came the end of such a glorious period and a glorious civilization.
