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Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the Geographic Challenges in the Indus Valley:
is a major river which flows through the north-western part of South Asia.

Describe the first evidence of people in the Indus Valley:
The inhabitants of the regions through whom the Indus river passes and forms a major natural feature and resource are diverse in ethnicity, religion, national and linguistic backgrounds.

Describe the cities of the Indus Valley:
The ultimate source of the Indus is in Tibet; it begins at the confluence of the Sengge and Gar rivers that drain the Nganglong Kangri and Gangdise Shan mountain ranges.

Describe Harrapan written language:
The language being unattested in any contemporary source, hypotheses regarding its nature are reduced to purported loanwords and substratum influence, notably the substratum in Vedic Sanskrit and a few terms recorded in Sumerian cuniform (such as Meluhha), in conjunction with analyses of the undeciphered Indus stript.

Describe Harrappan Culture:
The mature phase of this civilization is known as the Harappan Civilization as the first of its cities to be unearthed was the one at Harappa.

Describe Why the Harrapan Culture declined