Infrastructure
3 inventions in this category
Public bath
The Great Bath at Mohenjo-daro was not an innovation but a culmination. By 2600 BCE, the Indus Valley civilization had developed urban infrastructure...
Reservoir
The Indus River was less predictable than the Nile or the Tigris-Euphrates. Its floods came irregularly, sometimes not at all, sometimes devastatingly...
Rock-cut stepwell
Northwestern India's monsoon climate creates a cruel paradox: torrential rains for weeks, then bone-dry conditions for months. The water table in Guja...