GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Archaeological evidence shows that many of the settlements in the Indus or Harappan Civilisation was developed along the banks of a river called the Ghaggar-Hakra in northwest India and Pakistan. Scientists had assumed that it flowed while the Indus urban centres grew, playing an active role in their development.
Detailed explanation-2: -MESOPOTAMIA (3500 B.C. – 1700 B.C.) and 6, 000 years ago, the first river valley civilization developed in Mesopotamia, the region located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (in present-day Iraq).
Detailed explanation-3: -Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and made the land fertile for growing crops. Moreover, goods and people could be transported easily, and the people in these civilizations could fish and hunt the animals that came to drink water.