EduNETConnect.com - Time Machine

Please select a historical period:

25 years ago / 50 years ago / 80 years ago / 125 years ago / 150 years ago
250 years ago / 400 years ago / 700 years ago / 1,200 years ago
1,500 years ago / 2,000 years ago / 3,000 years ago / 4,000 years ago / 5,000 years ago / 10,000 years ago

5,000 Years Ago in India

Rice growing was apparently first done in the Malaysia/Indochina region about 5500 years ago. Both rice and cotton were important crops in the Harappa culture of the Indus valley. The city of Mohenjodaro, with a population of 35,000 people, had planned neighbourhoods, canals for irrigation and water drainage, communal granaries and bath houses, and was protected by walls.

The advanced Indus Valley or Harappan culture had appeared. Archaeological digs, such as at Mohenjodaro, show cities were laid out according to a checkerboard pattern, with canals and brick buildings. Loosely organized in a series of independent city states, the Harappans occupied a region from the eastern border of Iran through north India, an area bigger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. The origin of the Indus Valley people is not known for certain, but they were probably the ancestors of all the Aryan-speaking peoples.

back to map