indus valley civilization quiz set 4 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

In Indus Valley Civilization, pulses were unknown. The chief food crops included wheat, barley, sesasum, mustard, peas, etc. The evidence for rice has come from Lothal and Rangpur in the form of husks embedded in pottery. Cotton was another important crop.

A piece of woven cloth has been found at Mohenjodaro. Apart from cereals, fish and animal meat also formed a part of the Harappan diet.

Answer: (c)

The uniformity is noticed in the layout of the towns, streets, structures, brick size, drains etc. Almost all the major sites (Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Kalibangan and others), are divided into two parts-a citadels on the higher mound on the western side and a lower town on the eastern side of the settlement.

The citadel contains large structures which might have functioned as administrative or ritual centres. The residential buildings are built in the lower town. The streets intersect each other at right angles in a criss-cross pattern. It divides the city into several residential blocks.

The main street is connected by narrow lanes. The doors of the houses opened in these lanes and not the main streets.

Answer: (d)

A clay model of plough has been found from Banawali. It is an archaeological site belonging to Indus Valley Civilization period in Fatehabad district of Haryana.

Banawali is earlier called Vanavali, is situated on the left banks of dried up Saraswati river.

Answer: (c)

The best-known site of the cultural remains is Mehrgarh. Mehrgarh is a neolithic site seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization.

Answer: (c)

In 1827 Charles Masson was the first recorded European to visit Harappa on his way to the Punjab after deserting the army of the British East India Company. Four years later, another soldier and explorer Sir Alexander Burnes visited Harappa after mapping the Indus River.

The activities and reports of these early explorers eventually came to the attention of Sir Alexander Cunningham the first director of the Archaeological Survey of India. He visited the site twice, once in 1853 and later in 1856.

However, by the time of his second visit, much damage had been done from the removal of bricks used to build the bed for the Lahore-Multan railway in what is now Pakistan. He concluded that the material was related to the ruins of nearby 7th Century AD.

Answer: (c)

Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization located in the valley of Ghaggar-Harka river. Many Indus Valley (or Harappan)

sites have been discovered along the Ghaggar-Hakra beds.