WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Indus civilization, also known as the Indus valley Civilisationor Harappan civilization, is the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the Civilisation appear to be about 2500–1700 BCE, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium BCE.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 19th and 20th centuries, archaeologists discovered traces of India’s earliest civilization, one that developed in the fertile Indus River Valley between 3000 and 1900 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The roots of the Indus Valley civilization can be traced back to the site of Mehrgarh in Pakistan dated to about 7000 BC. The civilization reached its peak around 2600 BC and it went into decline around 1900 BC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indus Valley was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. However, for India, the Vedic civilization is said to be the earliest civilization in the history of ancient India.

Detailed explanation-5: -The people of Indus Valley built the first planned cities. Until the 1920s, the Aryan culture dating back to 1500 BCE was thought to be India’s oldest civilization. But in 1921, archaeologists unearthed the ruins of an entire city on the banks of the River Indus in western India.