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  1. Indus Valley Civilization

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    Environmental Change: Major shifts in river patterns, particularly the drying up of the Ghaggar-Hakra system, and potentially increasingly arid conditions affecting agriculture.
    Tectonic Activity: Earthquakes or localized flooding events that disrupted established infrastructure.
    Invasion Theories: The older theory, famously championed by Mortimer Wheeler, suggested violent conquest by invading Indo-Aryan groups (the Vedic period peoples). This theory is now largely discredited, though some elements persist in less …