India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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How Did the Indus Valley Civilization Fade?
After flourishing for six or 700 years, they practically vanished in the course of only about 200 years. Archaeological finds show that there was a rise invi lence and in diseases like tuberculosis and leprosy. Many people who had come from agricultural and irrigation based settlements changed to nomadic pastoralism.
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