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Ancient India

Dought caused the population of the Indus Valley to scatter from large urban centres to villages

21st Century BC
Indus Valley (Present-Day Northwest India and Eastern Pakistan)

In the early second millennium BCE, persistent drought caused the population of the Indus Valley to scatter from large urban centers to villages. Around the same time, Indo-Aryan tribes moved into Punjab from Central Asia in several waves of migration.


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