Prehistoric Period Questions and Answers

Correct answer: नियोजित जल-निकासी और ग्रिड योजना वाली नगरीय सभ्यता. The Indus Civilisation was highly urban, with planned streets, standardised bricks, covered drains, wells and organised craft and trade. It had long-distance contacts with Mesopotamia and used copper-bronze rather than iron. Thus the other options either belong to a different archaeological site, represent a different period, or do not match the specific evidence asked in the question.

Greek writers used forms such as sindon for fine Indian cotton cloth, a word associated with Sindh or the Indus region. Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha were ancient geographical or trading names, not the Greek name for cotton.

Mohenjodaro lies in Sindh province of present-day Pakistan. Dholavira is in Gujarat, Lothal is also in Gujarat and Kalibangan is in Rajasthan, India.

Dholavira in Kutch is famous for its sophisticated system of reservoirs, channels, dams and rainwater conservation adapted to an arid environment. Lothal is associated with a dockyard, Mohenjodaro with the Great Bath and Burzahom with pit dwellings.

Banawali in Haryana yielded a terracotta model of a plough, providing evidence related to Harappan agriculture. It is not the site of the Great Bath, a dockyard or Dholavira’s monumental stone reservoirs. Thus the other options either belong to a different archaeological site, represent a different period, or do not match the specific evidence asked in the question.

Horse bones have been reported from Surkotada in Gujarat. Their identification has been debated by scholars, so the answer should be understood as the standard archaeological-report and examination convention, not as proof that the horse was common throughout Harappan society. Thus the other options either belong to a different archaeological site, represent a different period, or do not match the specific evidence asked in the question.

Lothal in Gujarat is famous for a large brick basin commonly interpreted as a dockyard and for evidence of maritime trade, bead production and warehouses. The Great Bath belongs to Mohenjodaro and pit dwellings to Burzahom.

Kalibangan in Rajasthan is well known for the remains of a ploughed field and rows of fire altars. The Great Bath is at Mohenjodaro, the dockyard at Lothal and reported horse bones at Surkotada.

Chanhudaro was an important craft-production centre, especially noted for bead-making, shell work and other small industries. It lacked the large citadel usually seen at major Harappan cities and was not the site of the Great Bath or a dockyard.

Sutkagendor, near the Makran coast, functioned as a western Harappan trading outpost linked to routes toward the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia. Greece, China and the Roman Empire do not fit the Harappan chronological and commercial context.