Explain how the cities of the Indus valley people were more advanced and remarkable than those of the Mesopotamians.

Mesopotamia and Indus Valley Civilization were contemporary civilizations and there is evidences of the trade between them between 2600 and 1900 BC.  The Harappa civilization was larger than Mesopotamia.  Burnt bricks were more commonly used in Harappa than Mesopotamia.  The Indus people were less concerned with religion and more concerned with commerce.  The Indus people are known for their drainage systems, town planning and cleanliness.  Both civilization had writing but Mesopotamians had better math and better calendars.  In Mesopotamia there is a evidence of war with other lands.  The Indus people remained mostly at peace and were not expansionist.  

explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india