INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Decline. The Indus Valley Civilization declined around 1800 BCE, and scholars debate which factors resulted in the civilization’s demise.

Detailed explanation-2: -They also used mud from the river to make bricks for their buildings, and they constructed the world’s first planned towns and cities. Indus society was very organized and rich in arts and crafts. Despite these achievements, the Indus Valley civilization died out mysteriously in about 1500 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some historians believed the Indus civilisation was destroyed in a large war. Hindu poems called the Rig Veda (from around 1500 BC) describe northern invaders conquering the Indus Valley cities. In the 1940s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler discovered 39 human skeletons at Mohenjo-Daro.

Detailed explanation-5: -Indus civilization, also called Indus valley civilization or Harappan civilization, the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500–1700 bce, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium bce.