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Where and why did civilizations develop in ancient south west Asia?
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Mohenjo Daro was built on the fertilebanks of the Indus River about 2500 BC. Because it was a crossroad of trade, hadabundant fields to feed it's inhabitants and visitors and the river for additional traffic as well as access to the Indian ocean, where it was located.
It disappearedaround 1900 BCand no one knows why, although some archaeologists think the river changed its course and others maintain that a high level of radioactivity has been found at the site.
It is now located on the Pakistani side of the border.
Throughout India there are very ancient civilizations probably due to the fertility of the soil and the fact that the subcontinent was protected by the seas.
South India is home to pre-linguistic communities whose religious chants can be traced to no existing languages or their progenitors. Language experts have traced the memorized sounds of these chants back to the songs of birds from the regions but no one who sings these traditional chants can translate them.
As with many other areas of civilization that have come to be known to exist at that time, the cultures of the Indian sub-continent must be listed among the early sites of civilization.
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