GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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What led to the end of IVC?
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Invasion of Aryans
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Recurrent floods
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Earthquakes
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All of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The Indus valley civilization started declining from about 1900 BCE. Changes in climate, decline of trade with Mesopotamians, drying up or flooding of the river, foreign invasion of Indus civilisation might have been the reasons for the decline of this civilization.
Detailed explanation-2: -Writing and trade declined. Mortimer Wheeler suggested that the Aryan invasion led to the decline of the Indus Valley. This theory has now been debunked. Robert Raikes suggests that tectonic movements and floods caused the decline.
Detailed explanation-3: -drying up of river. deforestation. floodings. loss of control by the rulers and people abandoned Sind and Punjab.
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