Throughout the time of Harappa Culture the Indus River was utilized greatly by the people of the Indus Valley.  The Indus River provided many nutrients to the valley.  The river also carried a very fertile soil called silt, which was extraordinary for agriculture.  Every year a flooding season would occur.  This season would come around about the same time every year.  The flooding brought in water and nutrients to fertilize the valley. A method called irrigation was used by the Indus Valley people to flood their valley.  The early Mesopotamians also used irrigation to flood their fertile valley.  Irrigation was a method in which people would dig ditches allowing the floods to flow inland, nourishing the farm lands. 

The Indus River was a great resource for the Indus people but it was also very destructive.  The Indus River was very unpredictable.  Sometimes the river flooded leaving disaster behind, destroying crops, and crushing cities.  But if it under flooded it would result in just as much disaster, causing dry farmlands (Indus).  “Scholars believe that changing river patterns, including a series of floods, may have caused the end of the culture” (Lal).  Although the Indus River was very destructive it was an important and greatly used resource by the Indus Valley people.

Many methods of transportation were invented by the Indus people to trade such long distances.  There is a terracotta sculpture of a loaded ox-cart found in the city of Mohenjo-Daro representing one way of transportation (Due6).  River boats with wind sails were also invented to travel up the river and transport livestock and other goods (Kenoyer).  Networks of well-built roads were built around 300 B.C. in Northern and Western India.  These roads were used for trade routes (Roads).  Bullock carts pulled by oxen were another way of transportation used along the trade routes.  This intelligence led the Indian people to bring in goods that they could not produce themselves and that led to a better lifestyle. 

            The inventions and technological advancements of the Indus Valley people were very much ahead of their ancient time.  An early canal sewage system was developed by the Indus people in the city of Mohenjo-Daro.  This sewage system of canals ran through the city removing water waste from all of the houses.  Gutters were also use by the people throughout the city to lead the waste into the canal ditches.  The people also protected themselves from the unpredictable floods by building many of their houses and buildings out of mud bricks (Kenoyer).  The Indus people not only developed roads outside of their cities, but a grid pattern system within.  This grid pattern layout consisted of many columns of roads intersecting with many rows of roads.  This made it easy for the Indus to travel throughout the city and to find their way around because at the end of every block there were intersections of roads that could lead to any place in the city.   (Nardo66).  The Indus Valley people were also one of the first civilizations to develop a near correct, functional system of weighing, measuring, and counting (Lal).  Throughout ancient history the Indus Valley civilization was one of the most technologically advanced of all the ancient civilizations.

The game started off pretty mellow until we took a sudden lead.  The other team came back within 3 points and at the half the score was 15- 12 us.  In the second half the other team returned a kickoff for a touchdown and made the score 20 15.  Then we had a magnificent passing play for about 60 yards and the immaculate touchdown.  We went for two, got it and were now up by a field goal.  Our defense shut them out and we won the game.

That was last week, for the state semifinal, and now tomorrow we will play an undefeated team for the state championship!!

This movie is about a divorced man trying to save his family from the insane natural disasters occuring.  It all starts in Los Angeles when the earth’s crusts starts to fall, and the whole city goes down under.  The family miraculously escapes this and then heads into the treacherous volcanoes of YellowStone national park.  They overcome many more disasters and end up on the boats that with stand all of the enourmous sunami waves.  It is some of the best graphics I have seen in a long time!

If you get a chance this weekend, go see it!!!!

stepping into plunders of snow, leaving visible tracks,

I stop walking,

All noise stops,

scwish scwish scwish

There are also many new weapons in this game including the vector, p 90, ump 45, and the intervention.  The best gun out of all of these is the p 90, a very powerful gun.

Amazing how such simple strings can play amazing sounds,

A simple pluck can make wonders,

6 knobs for tuning the instrument to a more unbelievable tone,

Simply beautiful,

Guitar