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Yes - it was a major population centre and today is Pakistan.
Harappa
The four major cultural hearths are Nile Valley, Indus Valley, Wei-Huang Valley, and Mesopotamia. There are also the earliest known ones.
the Indus Valley
Although this limited outside contact, it is known that the early Indians used the Khyber pass through this range to communicate with other civilizations. In the future, groups would use this same pass to invade India. Two major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization have been discovered: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
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The Indus Valley Civilization (Harappans) had 1. good public wells (they had good water in the wells) 2. good sewer systems (wastewater flowed out to the drains located under the streets and than was carried to the sewer pits beyond the city walls).
1. Mesopotamian 2. Nile valley 3. Indus valley 4. Chinese and 5. New world
Tectonic shifts caused a major river, the Sarasvati/Ghaggar river, to dry up. There were also changes in the monsoon rains which caused floods followed by droughts, so that most of the people left.
1) The Nile River Valley 2) The Indus River Valley 3) The Wei-Huang Valley 4) The Ganges River Valley 5) Mesopotamia 6) Mesoamerica 7) West Africa
Of major ancient civilizations, the nearest one to Ancient China would be the Indus Valley one.
Indus River builders were able to plan and lay out elaborate cities with running water and sewers, and roads in a grid pattern. They could write and use stamp seals to put clay labels on cargo. Bronze, gold, silver, copper and tin were metals that they knew how to mine and use. Indus Valley people grew dates, melons, cotton, and rice, they weaved cloth, they raised animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and chickens, too.