CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Indus River in northern Sindh and often records summer maximums of 120
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Detailed explanation-1: -The climate of the Indus valley ranges from that of the dry semidesert areas of Sindh and Punjab provinces to the severe high mountain climate of Kohistan, Hunza, Gilgit, Ladakh, and western Tibet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Indus valley had moist climate.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the time, a “new ice age” was settling in, forcing colder air down from the Arctic into the Atlantic and northern Europe. That in turn pushed storms down into the Mediterranean, leading to an upswing in winter monsoons over the Indus valley.
Detailed explanation-4: -The monsoons that came to the Indus River Valley aided the growth of agricultural surpluses, which supported the development of cities, such as Harappa. The population came to rely on seasonal monsoons rather than irrigation, and as the monsoons shifted eastward, the water supply would have dried up.