CH 3 IN THE EARLIEST CITIES

Irrigation is the agricultural process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in the production of crops, as well as to grow landscape plants and lawns , where it may be known as watering.

a person whose job was to write copies of documents, especially before printing was invented.

 a castle on high ground in or near a city where people could go when the city was being attacked

The drains were mostly covered and hidden underground. They were covered by a layer of baked bricked which was laid flat across the side walls of the drain. 

first Street, Lower Levels Mohenjo-daro. Lower levels of Street 1 in DK- G area of Mohenjo-daro.

Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures.

Terracotta is a type of earthenware , which are prepared from a glazed ceramic or clay-based unglazed, where the fired body is porous.

The Harappan civilization was located in the Indus River valley. Its two large cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, were located in present-day Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces, respectively. Its extent reached as far south as the Gulf of Khambhat and as far east as the Yamuna (Jumna) River.

Lower Town ) is a neighbourhood in Rideau-Vanier Ward in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to the east of downtown. It is the oldest part of the city.

Archaeologists first visited Mohenjo Daro in 1911. Several excavations occurred in the 1920s through 1931. Small probes took place in the 1930s, and subsequent digs occurred in 1950 and 1964. The ancient city sits on elevated ground in the modern-day Larkana district of Sindh province in Pakistan.