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To: Cronos

If they were so friggin’ perfect, why did they die out?


2 posted on 04/10/2018 3:54:55 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Arm_Bears

2000 years is a pretty good run, if it really was that long.

Probably outside invaders got to them because they forgot how to defend themselves.


5 posted on 04/10/2018 4:01:55 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Arm_Bears
From what it seems they weren't perfect: war enables innovation. The ancient indians didn't war, so no innovations -- it looks like the people who lived there, lived generations in the same house. Things never changed

Why they moved was, as explained in the article, due to the Bronze Age collapse climate change which also brought down the Hittites, myceneans and Middle Kingdom Egypt

The Saraswati river dried up, so less easy farming. People abandoned the cities and either:

  1. Moved to southern India along the sea-coast (logical as they were a sea-faring people trading with Sumeria and Elam by sea)
  2. Moved east to the Ganges-Jamuna valley system
  3. Merged with the nomadic Aryans who were not affected by the climate change as they were nomadic herders

10 posted on 04/10/2018 4:16:07 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Arm_Bears
If they were so friggin’ perfect, why did they die out?

When the time came to defend their nation, the snowflakes had to run to their "safe spaces".

24 posted on 04/10/2018 5:39:52 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Strzok and Page - The very definition of SEDITION and TREASON!)
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To: Arm_Bears; Cronos
If they were so friggin’ perfect, why did they die out?

Perhaps try reading the article?

To wit:

Unlike other ancient civilizations in Egypt and China, the Harappan civilization has no obvious inheritors. When people began leaving Harappan cities in the late 1000s BCE, there is no obvious route that they took. Archaeologists studying the decline of this ancient civilization point to several factors that led to its death.

First, there was a rather brutal climate change that began in the early 1000s BCE. Monsoons came irregularly, and the once-fertile valley became parched. Add to this drought the fact that the cities had already been over-farming, and it's likely that starvation began driving people away from Harappa. There is also ample evidence that people in the cities were suffering from tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. The one-two punch of famine and plague left the region depopulated.


32 posted on 04/10/2018 6:20:34 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: Arm_Bears

Someone who knew how to make war showed up.


69 posted on 04/11/2018 6:42:46 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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