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प्रश्न
Answer the following question?
What were the probable causes which could have brought about an abrupt end to the Indus Valley Civilisation?
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उत्तर
There are many reasons attributed to the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
- The Harappan cities were destroyed by invaders who were probably the Aryans.
- Natural calamities such as floods, earthquakes, and epidemics might have destroyed the civilisation.
- River Indus might have changed its course and turned the region into a desert.
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