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occurrences and people in South Asia throughout history
About South Asian history
TheIndus Valley Civilisationwas the first civilisation to form in what is today India and Pakistan. The Indus Valley had vast trade networks. Merchants traded with Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, Southern India,Mesopotamia,Ancient Egypt, Dilmun (modern-dayBahrain) and possibly even as far asCrete. Although they have left behind impressive ruins of their cities as reminders of their existence, their writing system has yet to be deciphered, limiting further knowledge of their culture or history. Virtually all Indus Valley cities were abandoned by 1700 BCE. 1500 BCE marks theIndo-Aryanmigration into the subcontinent and beginning of the Vedic Period. The Indo-Aryan people brought with them the VedicSanskritlanguage and theVedas, initially passed down orally. Early Vedic peoples were or
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