DRAINAGE OF INDIA
THE INDUS
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Unpredictable snow stroms that melt in the mountains.
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Predictable droughts in the “Great Indian Desert".
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Predictable thunderstorms throughout the coastline.
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Unpredictable Monsoon that flooded the Indus-Ganges plains.
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Detailed explanation-1: -India’s first civilization developed in the Indus Valley because the Indus river system brings a steady source of irrigation water to the Indus Valley that made farming in this otherwise dry region possible. Regular river flooding also deposited fertile soil that was good for crops.
Detailed explanation-2: -They flourished in the Indus River basin on the Indian subcontinent around the same time the Egyptians were building the pyramids along the Nile and the Mesopotamians were digging irrigation channels fed by the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Detailed explanation-3: -The monsoon rains flooded the Indus River and helped the crops grow. The Indus Valley civilization developed near the Indus River for resources like fish, water, cleaning, and helping them grow crops.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.