CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Question
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5500 BC
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7569 BC
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8000 BC
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8, 000 years old, and not 5, 500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000BC to 3000BC) and Mesopotamian (6500BC to 3100BC) civilizations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Indus Valley Civilisation existed through its early years of 3300-1300 BCE, and its mature period of 2600-1900 BCE. The area of this Civilisation extended along the Indus River from what today is northeast Afghanistan, into Pakistan and northwest India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus Valley Civilization was a cultural and political entity which flourished in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent between c. 7000-c. 600 BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in human history. It arose on the Indian subcontinent nearly 5, 000 years ago-roughly the same time as the emergence of ancient Egypt and nearly 1, 000 years after the earliest Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia.